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last updated: November 28, 2023

“Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.”
-- Larry McVoy

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“In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different.”
-- Larry McVoy

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“Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.”
-- Larry McVoy

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“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
“All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.”
“Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!”
“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”
“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.”
“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”
“I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.”
“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
“The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.”

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