"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

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Source : Brian W. Kernighan (1981). “Software Tools in Pascal”, Addison-Wesley Professional

Brian Kernighan

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“Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.”

Source : Gilbert Parker (2013). “The Money Master”, p.208, Lulu Press, Inc
“A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus.”
“It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.”
“If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?”
“Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.”
“I can really find something interesting about almost anyone I talk to.”
“More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.”
“Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal.”

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