"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.…" — Brian Kernighan

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• Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. — Alfred Austin
• Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when… — Russell Baker
• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he… — Christian Bale
• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies… — Antonio Banderas
• Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting… — Gael Garcia Bernal
• I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict… — Emily Blunt
• Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification… — Edward de Bono
• When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your… — Nolan Bushnell
• We live in a rainbow of chaos. — Paul Cezanne
• After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling
• Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of… — Unknown Author

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