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Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this… — Steve McConnell
Good code is its own best documentation. — Steve McConnell
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as… — Francis Grund
And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you… — Michael Beckwith
Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them,… — Jack Donovan
Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the… — William J. Murray
If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex… — Joost Meerloo
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. — Larry Constantine
There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence… — Clayton Christensen
There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code… — Joel Spolsky
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life… — Gerry Spence
Real web designers write code. Always have, always will. — Jeffrey Zeldman
The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception.… — Pope Francis
More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more. — Bjarne Stroustrup
When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you… — Dennis Kucinich
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs. — Mary Wesley
What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use… — Jacques Audiard

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