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Code Quotes by Eric S. Raymond
- Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
- Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to…
- Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is…
- Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
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