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One may be surprised to learn the dominant successful trait is being incredibly lazy, and finding the simplest minimal-effort solution that also requites minimal system-maintenance.

There are some people that are clearly into S&M, that proudly bring their kinks into project design.

This is extremely funny, because we all know this is actually true =)



Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, "I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one."

In my experience, simple solutions are not the lazy minimal-effort ones. It takes a lot of work to distill complex problems down into simple solutions.


While I agree with the notion, I'm fairly sure this quote is attributed to Blaise Pascal.


Meh, all languages including English are recycled isomorphic protocols.

Mark Twain was just an alias the author thought sounded engaging... and quoting an alias is like quoting Batman.

Incredibly funny, but hardly meaningful... =)




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