"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."
"The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree."
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Source: Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry. Book by Suzanne Lammers, 1986.
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