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the peak linus torvalds quote (for me) is much shorter and less memeable
"If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program."
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@catoutofbed Any time I see quotes like this, I think of an unnamed engineer at IBM, seeing a microchip for the first time in 1968: "...but what is it /good/ for?"
@noelle @catoutofbed ...this still seems like a pretty good heuristic, give or take.
@noelle @catoutofbed (i meant the torvalds bit when i typed that, but on reflection i might also mean the IBM bit.)
