Brian Kernighan - The Elements of Programming Style (1974)

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Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

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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?

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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

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