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Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.

The best code is no code at all.

Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you — if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers — the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

All general statements are false.

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.

J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport

An act against my will is not my act.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question

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