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Programming has taught me not to be content with vague ideas. It's always easy to give hand-wavy solutions. Formalize it or you haven't solved it.



Reminds me of my boss's favorite quote:

> "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise, and everything precise is so remote from everything that we normally think, that you cannot for a moment suppose that is what we really mean when we say what we think." — Bertrand Russell




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