"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."
"Управление сложностью и есть сущностью программирования. "
Цитата #3
Цитата #95
"When I write a C program of any size, I probably will wind-up using 75, 80, 90% of the language features. In other words, most of the language is useful in almost any kind of program. By contrast, if I write in C++ I probably don't use even 10% of the language, and in fact the other 90% I don't think I understand."
Цитата #139
"Си — инструмент, острый, как бритва: с его помощью можно создать и элегантную программу, и кровавое месиво."
Цитата #193
"Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won’t do it well anyway. "
Цитата #208
"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."
"Отладка кода в двое сложнее его написания. Поэтому если вы будете писать код на грани своих возможностей, то, по определению, у вас не хватит ума его отладить."