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The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the… — John Carmack
One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to… — Cay S. Horstmann
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it… — Brian Kernighan
Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed. — Richard E. Pattis
The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution… — Richard E. Pattis
Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented. — Guido van Rossum
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and… — Gerald Jay Sussman
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a… — John A. Stormer
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air. — Larry Constantine
Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?" — Michael O'Leary
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not… — Paul Vixie
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be… — Adam Weishaupt
You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way… — Steven Moffat
Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called â€œThe Social Networkâ€] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to… — Marc Webb
I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. — Emo Philips
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for… — Mike Figgis
Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it… — Ward Cunningham
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is… — Julius Wellhausen
When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you… — Stephen Covey

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