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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.”
― Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

tags: complexity, elegance, simple, simplicity, virtue

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“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom

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“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion, zealotry

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