"If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

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Source : Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

Brian Kernighan

#Clever Quotes #Writing Quotes

“In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.”
“I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.”
“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.41, Grove Press
“People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.”
“God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.”

Source : Vikas Swarup (2013). “The Accidental Apprentice”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“Live with honor and follow your conscience.”
“When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.”
“Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.”

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