Programming Quote by Kent Beck

“Don't be a slave to history. Don't let existing code dictate future code. All code can be replaced if it is no longer appropriate.…

— Andrew Hunt

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

— Russ Olsen

I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you…

— Vikram Chandra

“Before I point out what was wrong with this particular synthesis attempt, see if you notice the problems. OK, here’s what I noticed: There…

— Victor Cheng

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

— Steve McConnell

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

— John Darnielle

I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a…

— Trevor Rabin

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

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

— Jason Fagone

"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.

— David Gries

“The chance of introducing a defect into your program is proportional to the size of the changes you make to it.”

— Max Kanat-Alexander