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"there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." – C.A.R. Hoare
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"Nine people can't make a baby in a month." – Fred Brooks
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"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." – Ken Thompson
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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
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"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." – Bill Gates
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"Being a good software engineer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet."