Articles Quote by Bob Frankston

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

— Frederick Lewis Allen

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

— Douglas Crockford

Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through…

— Ellen Ullman

It's harder to read code than to write it.

— Joel Spolsky

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

— William Safire

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

— Alan Turing

“Beautiful code is short and concise, so if you were to give that code to another programmer they would say, “oh, that’s well written…

— Cal Newport

“The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Spaghetti code Multiple pages of nested if clauses and for loops with a lot of copy-pasted procedural code and no proper segmentation are known…

— Kenneth Reitz

Sometimes it is better to re-write than overwriting. Avoiding the repetition is the best.

— Biman Gandhi

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes…

— Ward Cunningham