Beautiful Quotes from Jon Bentley ( reproduced here from his article on analysis of Quick Sort)

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• A master programmer adds function by deleting code.
• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.- Saint-Exupery.
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  In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
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  Vigorous writing is concise. Omit needless words. - Strunk and White
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  The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there. - Bell
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  Endeavor to do more and more with less and less.
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  If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter. -Pascal
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  The Inventor's Paradox: The more ambitious plan may have more chance of success. -Pólya
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  Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -Perlis
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  Less is more. - Browning
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  Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein
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  Software should sometimes be seen as a soap bubble. - Perlis
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  Seek beauty through simplicity.
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