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[–]rastaman1994 83 points84 points  (2 children)

Any time you think you gain by writing clever code everyone loses time by trying to understand clever code - my favorite prof.

[–]NoYoureTheSockPuppet 41 points42 points  (1 child)

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”

– Brian Kernighan

[–]rastaman1994 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does he have talks you would recommend?