Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
---- Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming.
the first recipient of the Turing Award (1966)
A founding father of Computer Science as a separate discipline
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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