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Quote #1 of the day!

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

Douglas R. Hofstadter
Quote #2 of the day!

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger W. Dijkstra
Quote #3 of the day!

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

Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Quote #4 of the day!

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

Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Quote #5 of the day!

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

John Osterhout
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