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> # Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

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## More from Brian Kernighan

1. > Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

[Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Brian-Kernighan/3/ "Permalink to quote 3")
2. > First make it run, then make it run fast.

[Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Brian-Kernighan/5/ "Permalink to quote 5")
3. > 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 ev…

[Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Brian-Kernighan/2/ "Permalink to quote 2")

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