Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it a…

Edsger Dijkstra
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Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. ✨ On the nature of Computing Science by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.
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Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. ✨ On the nature of Computing Science by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.

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