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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 W. Kernighan... Much of life has the feature that quick elimination is not only possible, but sensible and reliable. You can be pretty confident of a decision to throw out a scientific paper purporting to prove that the earth is flat. You can be reasonably certain you don't want to buy a book on a topic you usually find deadly dull or in a language you don't read. On a romantic plane, most people can eliminate all but a tiny number of potential mates on the basis of a small set of quick but telling tests, based on such quickly perceptible aspects as gender, age, appearance, style of dress, mannerisms, and so forth. Were life not this way, we would feel far less in control of our own destinies. At every moment, we would have the sense that a million rich potentialities lay all about us, yet completely..