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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton namingthings.co

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"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do" — Donald Knuth

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