Copy and paste is a design error.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

Copy and paste is a design error.