“Don’t comment bad code—rewrite it.”
—Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plaugher

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

- Brian W. Kernighan (The Elements of Programming Style)

"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

What if Brian Kernighan was just trying to say "Hell O world" and we misinterpreted as hello world

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Brian Kernighan once said that "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."

I have quite a few but I'll try to narrow it down.

Micheal Reeves
John Carmack
John Romero
Steve Wozniak
Ken Thompson
Brian Kernighan

"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."
-Brian Kernighan (Software Tools)

"Hello World"

First chapter of Kernighan/Ritchie.

" Controlling Complexity Is The Essence Of Computer Programming!"

-Brian Kernighan

I have multiple ones, my uni has for one several amazing professors that I admire. Then there's there's the classics Thompson, kernighan, djikstra et al. T.A.D, uncle Bob and last but not least Stallman

All of them has provided insights, knowledge and a better way to view code and software