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I heard an aphorism once I've tried to live by since: It is twice as hard to debug code as it is to write it. If you write code as clever as you can make it, y

I heard an aphorism once I've tried to live by since: It is twice as hard to debug code as it is to write it. If you write code as clever as you can make it, you will never be able to debug it.

samatman 7y ago
Ironically enough, given the article, this is attributed to Brian Kernighan.
- codebje 7y ago
  I'll try to remember the attribution as well as the aphorism in future, thanks :-)