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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming mus

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if thats what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Education
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Programs for sale: fast, reliable, cheap – choose two. – Author Unknown

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At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats. – The Washington Post Magazine, 9 June 1985

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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? – Brian Kernighan

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Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. – Harlan Mills

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