“Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.”

—  Brian W. Kernighan

An Interview with Brian Kernighan from the PC Report Romania http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mihaib/kernighan-interview/.

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