Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.Brian W. Kernighan
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.John Gaule
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.Douglas Adams
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.Albert Einstein
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.C. A. R. Hoare
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.Alan Moore
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.Lemony Snicket
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.Min Jin Lee
We are often told that health inequalities are about money, that poor people cannot afford to live healthy lifestyles, but that is far too simplistic.Julia Hartley-Brewer
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it is too expensive to change.Jaron Lanier
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It can be argued that it implies the opposite.Thomas Sowell
Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.Carol S. Dweck
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.Alan Kay
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.Lao Tzu
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.James Surowiecki
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.Thomas Sowell
Most complexity is unnecessary, but we manage it instead of removing it because deletion requires courage that addition doesn't.Jason Fried
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.Jamie Zawinski
Life is a paradox; it is simultaneously simple and complex, and understanding this duality is the key to wisdom.Iain McGilchrist
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.Ellen Ullman
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.Walt Whitman