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?

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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?" in the context of "Brian Kernighan, "The Elements of Programming Style", 2nd edition, chapter 2" to mean that wisdom is timeless.