"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

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Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

Alan Perlis

#Life And Love Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Genius Quotes

“I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.”
“You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.”
“Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.”

Source : C. Edwin Baker (2014). “Advertising and a Democratic Press”, p.99, Princeton University Press
“In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.”
“It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.”
“Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.”
“It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.”

Source : "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”

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