# Programming Aphorisms

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/programming-aphorisms
- Date: 2018-02-20

[Norris Numbers](https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.html) ---

> My friend Clift Norris has identified a fundamental constant that I call Norris’ number, the average amount of code an untrained programmer can write before he or she hits a wall. Clift estimates this as 1,500 lines. Beyond that the code becomes so tangled that the author cannot debug or modify it without herculean effort.

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