Programming Quote by Kenneth Reitz

“I don’t predict the demise of object-oriented programming, by the way. Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code.”

— Paul Graham

“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”

— Paul Graham

“few people can understand more than three levels of nested ifs”

— Steve McConnell

“complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.”

— Steve McConnell

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes…

— Ward Cunningham

“In general terms, the loop else simply provides explicit syntax for a common coding scenario — it is a coding structure that lets us…

— Mark Lutz

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

— Charles Petzold

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

— Bob Frankston

“the essence of codebreaking, finding patterns, and because it’s such a basic human function, codebreakers have always emerged from unexpected places”

— Jason Fagone

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

— Raymond Simard

“There is no code so big, twisted, or complex that maintenance can't make it worse.”

— Steve McConnell

“No code is ever completely solved, you know. —ELIZEBETH S. FRIEDMAN”

— Jason Fagone