Mess Quote by Ellen Ullman

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

— Joel Spolsky

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how…

— will.i.am

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going…

— Donald Knuth

“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

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

— Erno Rubik

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into…

— Charles Petzold

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

— Bella Thorne

“Favor read-time convenience to write-time convenience. Code”

— Steve McConnell

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

— Bill Gates

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

— Bob Frankston

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,…

— Margaret Atwood

“Seibel: How do you read code you didn't write? Crockford: By cleaning it. I'll throw it in a text editor and I'll start fixing…

— Peter Seibel