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• The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. -- C. Hoare
• Quote #645 I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz.
  "how not to make a mess of it", has not been met. -- Dijkstra (EWD 1304, 2000-11-19)...
• I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. -- Tom Stoppard
• Cannibalism is a small price to pay for popularity.
• Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence.
• Quote #648 It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society of the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity.
  -- Dijkstra (EWD 1243)...
• Old age is too high a price to pay for maturity.
• Quote #651 I firmly believe that no project can result in a product better than the language in which the product has been discussed and carried out.
  For anything non-trivial careful use of language is not a luxury, but a must....