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Alan Mackay : Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. # Simplicity

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Terry Eagleton : " All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that. " # Simplicity

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H L Mencken : " For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. " # Simplicity

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Colin Wilson : " The complex develops out of the simple. " # Simplicity

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Remy de Gourmont : " Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. " # Simplicity

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Oscar Wilde : " Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. " # Simplicity

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Warren Buffett : " The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. " # Simplicity

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Oscar Wilde : " I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. " # Simplicity

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John Gall : " A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. " # Simplicity

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Source Unknown : " Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful. " # Simplicity

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David Seabury : " Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. " # Simplicity

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Alan Mackay: " Computing spread out much, much faster than educating unsophisticated people can happen. In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened when television came on the scene and some of its inventors thought it would be a way of getting Shakespeare to the masses. But they forgot that you have to be more sophisticated and have more perspective to understand Shakespeare. What television was able to do was to capture people as they were. So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture." # Education # Computers # Television

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Alan Mackay: " The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully." # Computers # Language # Words

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Alan Mackay: " A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points." # Change # Philosophers and Philosophy # Reality

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Alan Mackay: " I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!”" # Computers # Books - Reading # Love

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Alan Mackay: " Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem." # Life and Living # Marriage # Husbands

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Alan Mackay: " If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." # Failure # Time and Time Management # Love

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Alan Mackay: " By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice." # Books - Reading # Lies and Lying # Education

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Alan Mackay: " Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." # Simplicity

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Alan Mackay: " Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born." # Technology

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Alan Mackay: " Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves." # Simplicity # Integrity # History and Historians

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