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Schneier's law of software?

Posted Jul 23, 2012 17:45 UTC (Mon) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)
In reply to: Schneier's law of software? by Max.Hyre
Parent article: Left by Rawhide

It pretty much already exists, and long predates Schneier's:

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"
-- Brian Kernighan, "The Elements of Programming Style"

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