Legacy Quote by Michael Feathers

“To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.”

— Michael C. Feathers

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

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

— Kent Beck

The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is…

— Ellen Ullman

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

— Steve McConnell

“The ability to violate our own programming is what makes us us. It's what makes us like them. I never wanted to be like…

— C. Robert Cargill

“Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.”

— Paul Krugman

“Modernism was based on a kind of arrogance ... and led designers to believe that if they thought of something cool, it must be…

— Larry Wall

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

— Nicholas Carr

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

— Russ Olsen

“...that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be more dismaying…

— John Barth