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by nuancebydefault 1203 days ago
'Design simple and robust systems...' and 'never proceed without confidence in your understanding...'. When I was a freshman, I would have said that. Then I entered the professional world. Complex problems are solved using complex solutions. Complete understanding is non-existing. Robustness is a relative term.
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> never proceed without [total] confidence in your understanding

The fellow I learned that from was apenwarr, FWIW.