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by JulianK 3439 days ago
For those that like trivia, the original quote I believe is by Kernighan and it's about debugging code rather than writing it, which I feel makes more sense:

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan