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When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove def

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. – Richard Pattis

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If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, e.g., with no external memory aids, you are not ready to code it. – Richard Pattis

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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. – Author Unknown

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The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory, in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system. “But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.” Matthew 5:37 – Author Unknown

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There does not now, nor will there ever exist, a programming language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs. – Lawrence Flon

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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. – Brian Kernighan

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