Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity
From the poems written in English
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text
Context: Often as you move comments around and have similar comments adjacent to each other, you find that half of the words can be cut out. Because a sentence says it all if the sentence is in just the right place. On Ward's wiki, the process has been called "refactoring," which is what we call the process in software. Ward's wiki is about software and it has software people on it, so they call it refactoring. Anyplace else it would probably be called editing. So on Ward's wiki, refactoring is an ongoing process. The assumption is that when something turns out to not be ideal, it will be refactored again. Everything is subject to refactoring.
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“If even a single hair of my beard learns my secret, I will cut my beard from the root.”
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
“A logo is the period at the end of a sentence, not the sentence itself.”
I am fluent in the French language.
Source: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005), pp. 51-52
Source: The Lay of the Land
“All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death;”
De Profundis (1897)
