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 Engineering Holy Holy grail Programming Reuse Software Software engineering
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“Erase outdated elements and rewrite programs: learn, unlearn and relearn to constantly adapt.”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