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It is often tempting to create functions that have multiple sections that perform a series of operations. Functions of this kind do more than one thing, and should be converted into many smaller functions, each of which does one thing.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
Therefore, we need to take our social values into account so that we can figure out which problems are most significant to us and therefore which lines of research should be most heavily funded.
A Tapestry of Values
Kevin C. Elliott
It may well be that foragers switched from gathering wild wheat to intense wheat cultivation, not to increase their normal food supply, but rather to support the building and running of a temple. In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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