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Quote #1 of the day!

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger W. Dijkstra
Quote #2 of the day!

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

Ken Thompson
Quote #3 of the day!

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein
Quote #4 of the day!

A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.

John Osterhout
Quote #5 of the day!

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
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