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* ''"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."'' - Brian W. Kernighan | * ''"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."'' - Brian W. Kernighan | ||
* ''"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."'' - Donald E. Knuth | * ''"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."'' - Donald E. Knuth | ||
* ''"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."'' - Linus Torvalds | |||
* ''"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."'' - Henry Petroski | |||
Latest revision as of 02:58, 22 March 2010
- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald E. Knuth
- "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done." - Linus Torvalds
- "The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry." - Henry Petroski