A programmer who truly sees his program as an extension of his own ego is not going to be trying to find all the errors in that program. On the contr… - Gerald M. Weinberg

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A programmer who truly sees his program as an extension of his own ego is not going to be trying to find all the errors in that program. On the contrary, he is going to be trying to prove that the program is correct — even if this means the oversight of errors which are monstrous to another eye. All programmers are familiar with the symptoms of this dissonance resolution — -in others, of course.