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endergen on July 13, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Great programming quotes

The best hands down quote in my opinion is:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton

fizx on July 14, 2010 | [–]

I like the variant:

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."

jdale27 on July 14, 2010 | [–]

You've confused computer science with programming.

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