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[–] tal@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Knuth's webpage states the line was used to end a memo entitled Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion (1977)