Alan Perlis Quotes
31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis
Quotes to Explore
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I don't tell many people my last name.
Allegra Versace
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
Andrea Bocelli
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I'm totally pro-porg! I would not eat a porg. They're so cute; you can't eat them. They're friends!
Kelly Marie Tran
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You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.
James Sinegal
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If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
Chris Evans
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. Bell
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The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
Alan Hovhaness
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If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.
Dalai Lama
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If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can't stress enough that I detest writing, it's something that sticks with me not from any English class but from some awfully recondite driver's ed. seminars I had the privilege to audit during my mid-teens, and to this day I probably misunderstand it anyway. It's the term "right of way."
Gary Lutz
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So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
Kathy Mattea
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31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis
