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Certainty?

I’m not sure…
-Socrates

Debugging

There is no such thing as the last bug in a program.
There are no stubborn bugs.
There are only stubborn Debuggers.
-unknown

One method

I have only one method that I recommend extensively…
it’s called think before you write.
- Richard Hamming

Reducing uncertainty

Reducing uncertainty is a costly business.
Peter L. Bernstein
Against the Gods

Smile in the face of adversity

it costs nothing to grin
Winston Churchill

Statistics

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
- William W. Watt"

Engineers

Engineers like to solve problems.
If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”
- Scott Adams

EngineersI was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”
— Albert Einstein

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