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Brian Kernighan Quotes

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student Picture Quote #1

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought Picture Quote #1

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton Picture Quote #1

I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort Picture Quote #1

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts Picture Quote #1

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don’t, you are not testing; you are experimenting Picture Quote #1

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Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won’t do it well anyway Picture Quote #1

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it’s different in more than just syntactic trivia Picture Quote #1

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It’s the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do Picture Quote #1

It’s important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers Picture Quote #1

Even though most people won’t be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate Picture Quote #1

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never Picture Quote #1

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Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems Picture Quote #1

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming Picture Quote #1

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries Picture Quote #1

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again Picture Quote #1

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one Picture Quote #1

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs Picture Quote #1

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The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements Picture Quote #1

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 be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Picture Quote #1

If you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Picture Quote #1

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won’t do it well anyway Picture Quote #1

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I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought (Brian Kernighan Quotes) For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) ... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don’t, you are not testing; you are experimenting. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won’t do it well anyway. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it’s different in more than just syntactic trivia. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It’s the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) It’s important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Even though most people won’t be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) 90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems. (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming (Brian Kernighan Quotes) An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries (Brian Kernighan Quotes) If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs (Brian Kernighan Quotes) The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements (Brian Kernighan Quotes) 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 be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? (Brian Kernighan Quotes) If you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? (Brian Kernighan Quotes) Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? (Brian Kernighan Quotes) 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 Quotes) Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won’t do it well anyway (Brian Kernighan Quotes)