"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows 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

#Simplicity Quotes #Doe Quotes #Complexity Quotes

“I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.”
“The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.”

Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
“By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.”
“Successful investors like stocks better when theyâ€™re going down. When you go to a department store or a supermarket, you like to buy merchandise on sale, but it doesnâ€™t work that way in the stock market. In the stock market, people panic when stocks are going down, so they like them less when they should like them more. When prices go down, you shouldnâ€™t panic, but itâ€™s hard to control your emotions when youâ€™re overextended, when you see your net worth drop in half and you worry that you wonâ€™t have enough money to pay for your kidsâ€™ college.”
“It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.”
“What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.”
“Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted.”

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