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Quote by Brian Kernighan
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a progra

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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