Quoting Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 17, p. 7-13, 1982

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
— Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 17, p. 7-13, 1982 (via)

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