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Re:Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls: 25 years old, still bri... by MikeTaylor on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @03:57AM (#2461967)
That one is a quote from Ken Thompson, the inventor of (among much else), Unix and UTF-8. It is quoted in _Programming Pearls_, though -- I think, in the sequel rather than the original.
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