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"content": "<p>I love when programming handbooks start with quotes like this:</p><p>"Creativity is more than just being different...<br />Anybody can play weird — that's easy.<br />What's hard is to be as simple as Bach.<br />Making the simple complicated is commonplace...<br />Making the complicated simple<br />— awesomely simple;<br />That"s creativity."</p><p>— Charles Mingus, jazz musician (1922-1979)</p><p>(Source: The MacFORTH handbook, 1984 — <a href=\"https://bitsavers.org/pdf/creativeSolutions/MacFORTH_1.2_Oct84.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">bitsavers.org/pdf/creativeSolu</span><span class=\"invisible\">tions/MacFORTH_1.2_Oct84.pdf</span></a>)</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Forth\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Forth</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Creativity\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Creativity</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Simplicity\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Simplicity</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Quote\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Quote</span></a></p>",
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"en": "<p>I love when programming handbooks start with quotes like this:</p><p>"Creativity is more than just being different...<br />Anybody can play weird — that's easy.<br />What's hard is to be as simple as Bach.<br />Making the simple complicated is commonplace...<br />Making the complicated simple<br />— awesomely simple;<br />That"s creativity."</p><p>— Charles Mingus, jazz musician (1922-1979)</p><p>(Source: The MacFORTH handbook, 1984 — <a href=\"https://bitsavers.org/pdf/creativeSolutions/MacFORTH_1.2_Oct84.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">bitsavers.org/pdf/creativeSolu</span><span class=\"invisible\">tions/MacFORTH_1.2_Oct84.pdf</span></a>)</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Forth\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Forth</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Creativity\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Creativity</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Simplicity\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Simplicity</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Quote\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Quote</span></a></p>"
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