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Brian Kernighan Inspirational Quotes (10)
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Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
Brian Kernighan
Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.
Brian Kernighan
If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.
Brian Kernighan
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C wears well as one's experience with it grows. With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.
Brian Kernighan
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
Brian Kernighan
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.
Brian Kernighan
C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.
Brian Kernighan
Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.
Brian Kernighan
... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing you are experimenting.
Brian Kernighan
Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with
Brian Kernighan