"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better"

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Source : "On the nature of Computing Science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.

Edsger Dijkstra

#Hard Work Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.”

Source : "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.
“God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 25, 2018
“I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.”
“The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.”
“But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.”
“I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.”
“Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.”
“Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train.”

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