Talk:Brian Kernighan

"First make it work, then make it faster" -- a possible source of that is the "Elements of Programming Style", a book published a long time ago. I first remember reading a version of that aphorism there.

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 * First make it run, then make it run fast.
 * If you haven't used grep, you've missed one of the simple pleasures of life.

The photo here is made to look like an "old" photo of him from historical times, but it is in fact a cropped black-and-white filtered version of a photo from the 90s seen here on forbesindia which I doubt very much the poster has copyright over