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The article mentioned the dangers of clever code and asked for a particular quote he couldn't remember. I couldn't help but be reminded of this one:

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. -Brian Kernighan



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