Summarizing: as a slow-witted human being I have a very
small head and I had better learn to live with it and to
respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather
than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort
will be punished by failure.
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly
limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches
the programming task in full humility, and among other
things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.
He expressed similar thoughts on other occasions. And there are others who express the same idea.
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He expressed similar thoughts on other occasions. And there are others who express the same idea.