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From his book: "It is faster to make a four-inch mirror and then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror."

This is one of my favorite programming quotes. I haven't seen it used much over the years.




That one is a quote from Ken Thompson, the inventor of (among much else), Unix and UTF-8. It is quoted in _Programming Pearls_, though -- I think, in the sequel rather than the original.


As noted, a quotation from Ken Thompson. It appears in the chapter "Bumper Sticker Computer Science" in _More Programming Pearls" along with many other fine aphorisms.




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