On a similar vein, Kernighan’s Law: Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible,

On a similar vein, Kernighan’s Law: 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. Discussed on HN a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22348386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22348386