Code Quote by Brian Kernighan

Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.

— Robbie Coltrane

“Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of…

— Robert C. Martin

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

— Crawford Kilian

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

— Bob Frankston

Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that…

— Scott Adams

Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's…

— Happy Rockefeller

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

— Anonymous

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabetsoup?

— John Mendoza

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

— Joel Spolsky

“An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than…

— Calvin Mooers

I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the…

— Christopher Moore