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...simplifications Have Had A Much Greater Long-range Scientific Impact Than Individual Feats Of Ingenuity. The Opportunity For Simplification Is Very Encouraging, Because In All Examples That Come To Mind The Simple And Elegant Systems Tend To Be Easier And Faster To Design And Get Right, More Efficient In Execution, And Much More Reliable Than The More Contrived Contraptions That Have To Be Debugged Into Some Degree Of Acceptability....simplicity And Elegance Are Unpopular Because They Require Hard Work And Discipline To Achieve And Education To Be Appreciated.

Too Few People Recognize That The High Technology So Celebrated Today Is Essentially A Mathematical Technology.

Teaching Cobol Ought To Be Regarded As A Criminal Act.

Much Of The Excitement We Get Out Of Our Work Is That We Don't Really Know What We Are Doing.

The Lurking Suspicion That Something Could Be Simplified Is The World's Richest Source Of Rewarding Challenges.