Alternatives Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup

“To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.”

— Michael C. Feathers

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

— Nicholas Negroponte

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.

— Walter Bender

I want to create a different kind of legacy.

— Goapele

Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved…

— Anonymous

I believe in legacy.

— Betty Wright

“Legacy code. The phrase strikes disgust in the hearts of programmers. It conjures images of slogging through a murky swamp of tangled undergrowth with…

— Michael Feathers

I have never thought of legacy or what I want to achieve.

— Maurice Levy

I want to create a legacy.

— Jade Cargill

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

— Douglas Crockford

It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

— Frederick Lewis Allen

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

— Bill Gates