Code Quote by Frederick Lewis Allen

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

— Bob Frankston

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

— Joel Spolsky

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…

— Joel Spolsky

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will…

— Larry Wall

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

— Joshua Bloch

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

— Douglas Crockford

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

— Frederick Pollock

Little else matters than to write good code.

— Karl Lehenbauer

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

— Brian Kernighan

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

— Wietse Venema

Life would be much easier if I had the source code

— Anonymous

“a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.”

— Russ Olsen