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On Complexity

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

Alan J. Perlis, Eipgrams on Programming, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9, September 1982, pages 7-13.

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