Origin of "There are only two hard things in Computer Science" quote

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As his only son, and colleague with him at Netscape from 95-97, I can attest that my dad did indeed throw that quote around, on more than one occasion. I'm fairly confident that he originated it (he was fond of coming up with clever quippets), though I haven't been able to figure out how it disseminated so widely over the past couple of decades. I'll keep looking around in old web archives and mails to see if I can dig something up.

Reference from David Karlton's personal blog at karlton.org: https://www.karlton.org/2017/12/naming-things-hard/

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answered Aug 10, 2017 at 19:53

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Tim Bray says on Twitter:

Phil [Karlton] said it, I reported it, someone else added on the “off-by-one”.

Leon Bambrick replies that he added off-by-one.

answered Jan 21, 2015 at 17:45

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