Code Quote by Brian Kernighan

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

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

— Neal Stephenson

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

— Larry Wall

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

— Eric S. Raymond

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

— Brandon Mull

I've always liked code that runs fast.

— Jeff Dean

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

— Joel Spolsky

The weird ones are usually ones who will crack the codes and take over the world. We're not bad people, we're just weird in…

— Kelly Oubre, Jr

Weird is good, strange is bad.

— Cinda Williams Chima

Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.”

— Steve McConnell

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

— Karl Lehenbauer