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It always get cited as "only one way to do it", but the actual motto is "there should be one obvious way to do it". It's very different.



I think that the full quote is a synthesis of the two:

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

The follow-up I think hammers home the subjectiveness of ‘obvious’:

> Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.




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