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"Mathematical equivalence is not a substitute for clarity and directness: we must say exactly what we mean, not something else that can be shown to have the same effect."
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"Rules of Optimization:
Rule 1: Don't do it.
Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet."
- Michael A. Jackson
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"Jackson's Rules of Optimization: Rule 1. Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only). Don't do it yet - that is, not until you have a perfectly clear and unoptimized solution.
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"The beginning of wisdom for a programmer is to recognize the difference between getting his program to work and getting it right. A program which does not work is undoubtedly wrong; but a program which does work is not necessarily right. It may still be wrong because it is hard to understand; or because it is hard to maintain as the problem requirements change; or because its structure is different from the structure of the problem; or because we cannot be sure that it does indeed work"
- Michael A. Jackson -
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"Software is only one interpretation of the reality of the problem it is solving."
- Michael A. Jackson
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