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Pithy Pieces of Perspicacity

A quote [from here] from the late, great Edsger Wybe Dijkstra:

if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”

Something for the “I can write it faster/better/smaller/… myself” crowd to ponder.

Here’s another pithy piece [from the same source as above]:

…the problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

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