Clarity Quote by Brian Kernighan Download Open image “Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.” — Brian Kernighan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clarity Clarity of thought Substitutes
No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience,… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It comes a moment that someone says something really small, but fits so perfect into your heart that everything start to make sense!! — Laylablack Copy Share Image
Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
![“Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well…” quote by Brian Kernighan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb9/brian-kernighan-27197_bears_another-effective-debugging-technique-is_1618728.jpg)
