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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Alan Perlis
American
Scientist
Born:
Apr 1
,
1922
Died:
Feb 7
,
1990
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
Wise
Speak
Men
Fools
Say
Something
Wise Men
Because
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
Free
Fools
Difficult
Revere
Chains
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
People
Problem
World
Fools
Wiser
Always
Fanatics
Themselves
Certain
Doubts
Full
Whole
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
Fool
Fools
Complain
Criticize
Most
Condemn
Any
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Bryant H. McGill
Selfish
World
Hide
Fools
Cowards
Liars
High
High Places
Fair
Often
Not Fair
Places
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb
World
Fools
April
See
Hath
More
Cometh
Than
As Far As
Again
Far
Ever
Here
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
Time
Man
Intelligence
Sometimes
Fools
Drunk
Spend
Forced
His
Intelligent
Intelligent Man
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire
Fools
Prejudices
Use
Reason
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
Men
Fools
Power
Corrupt
Does
However
Get
Position
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon
Wisdom
Great
Knowledge
Wise
Fool
Great Deal
Men
Fools
Know
Knowing
Greater
Deal
How
Use
Many
Right
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