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1 --- 2 attributed: false 3 date: '2007-08-01' 4 draft: false 5 lang: 'en' 6 misattributed: false 7 tags: ['Authorship', 'Coding', 'Programming'] 8 title: '[I]f a piece of code is written by multiple authors, none of them understand it as well as a single author would.' 9 unverified: false 10 --- 11 12 # *[I]f a piece of code is written by multiple authors, none of them understand it as well as a single author would.* 13 — Paul Graham, <a href="http://paulgraham.com/head.html">Holding a Program in One's Head</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20201212145427/http://paulgraham.com/head.html">Archived link</a>).