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In this context, I believe the author uses 'providence' to mean an act of God. Translated to a non-religious context, it might be "A stupid man is born a stupid man by pure chance"…

I was looking for a definition a few weeks ago and found the wikipedia article succinct and accurate (it met my needs anyway): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

I see what you did there- famous Yogi Berra quote.

I would say dord is a woody sort of word... dord.

If you are looking to advance your career, you might want to consider focusing on understanding large scale distributed systems architecture rather than programming.