Even when faced with certain death, <b>die laughing!</b>
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<i>— Toda Shinryuken</i>

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The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled
with judiciously placed print statements.
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<i>— Brian W. Kernighan, in the paper Unix for Beginners (1979)</i>

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A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.
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<i>— John Osterhout</i>

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..At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would
collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything
in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough
determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will
stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one
quality that cannot be purchased in this way -and that is reliability.
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It
is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.
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<i>— C.A.R. Hoare</i>

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The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by
the complexities of his own making.
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<i>— E. W. Dijkstra</i>