Code Quote by Douglas Crockford Download Open image “Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.” — Douglas Crockford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Code Code Reuse Engineering Holy Holy grail Programming Reuse Reuse Holy Software Software engineering Technology
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place. — Frederick Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
“Erase outdated elements and rewrite programs: learn, unlearn and relearn to constantly adapt.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“give people a tool, and they’ll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they’ll code for a lifetime. This” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
“If you want to learn more about the bad parts and how to use them badly, consult any other JavaScript book.” — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and… — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
“suppress empty strings in the output array when the separator is a regular expression: var f = '|a|b|c|'.split(/\|/); // f is ['a', 'b', 'c']… — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
“Few classical programmers found prototypal inheritance to be acceptable, and classically inspired syntax obscures the language’s true prototypal nature. It is the worst of… — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
“undefined and NaN are not constants. They are global variables, and you can change their values. That should not be possible, and yet it… — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too. — Jessy Schram Copy Share Image
I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
When we're done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image