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• Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Kerniga
• VII. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
  -- Laws of Computer Programming...
• Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
  Laws of Computer Programming, VII...
• Quote #686 Computer Science is the first engineering discipline in which the complexity of the objects created is limited solely by the skill of the creato
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• Quote #41 As practiced by computer science, the study of programming is an unholy mixture of mathematics, literary criticism, and folklore.
  -- B. A. Sheil, 1981...
• Quote #47 A Law of Computer Programming: Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English.
• Quote #43 "First learn computer science and all the theory.
  Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack." -- George Carrette...
• The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. -- Brian Kernigha
• The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.
  Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away its essence....