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"Nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious"
Murphy's law -
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window"
Steve Wozniak -
"Computer science is neither mathematics nor electrical engineering"
Alan Perlis -
"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it"
Edsger W. Dijkstra -
"The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast"
Joshua Bloch -
"If someone claims to have the perfect programming language, he is either a fool or a salesman or both"
Bjarne Stroustrup -
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."
Jamie Zawinski