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Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Hindsight is an exact science.
Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
Kernighan and Ritchie
Proverb - Found in a Linux fortunes file.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
People who preach software design as a disciplined activity spend considerable energy making us all feel guilty. We can never be structured enough or object-oriented enough to achieve nirvana in this lifetime. We all truck around a kind of original sin from having learned Basic at an impressionable age. But my bet is that most of us are better designers than the purists will ever acknowledge.
