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Discussion on: Can you share your favorite quote or rule related to IT?

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Cadell

"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, be definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian Kernighan

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Leah Einhorn • Edited

Just read a similar one!

Debugging code is twice as hard as writing it, so always write code as if you're a halfwit.

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Rafal Pienkowski

It's so real.