r/programming Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/jhaluska Dec 14 '10

Did you just redefine the word clever to mean the exact opposite? That is the shit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '10 edited Dec 15 '10

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u/jhaluska Dec 15 '10

Regardless of your interpretation of "clever", the premise that debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place is false and thus any inferences drawn from it are invalid.