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Quote #684 Fools Ignore Complexity; Pragmatists Suffer I
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Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses
remove it.
-- A. Perlis
Related:
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it.
Geniuses remove it. -- Perlis's Programming Proverb #58, SIGPLAN Notices, Sept. 1982...
Quote #682 When debugging, novices insert corrective code
experts remove defective code. -- R. Patti...
Quote #607 I fear the the new object-oriented systems may suffer the fate of LISP
in that they can do many things, but the complexity of the class hierarchies may cause them to collapse under their own weight....
Avoid bigots and fools...oh, that's redundant, isn't it.
Those who quote me are fools. -- Confucius Say
Quote #625 Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kerniga
Liberals are failed pragmatists.
Quote #107 "The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
Quote #31 In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. -- Alan Perli