Break Quote by Neal Stephenson

“data outlives code.”

— Martin Kleppmann

Whenever you have something looping, you essentially have something generating information with less information.

— Tristan Perich

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

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

— Ron Jeffries

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

— Jason Fagone

Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through…

— Ellen Ullman

Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's…

— Tom Stoppard

It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

— Frederick Lewis Allen

Watching a program run is not as revealing as reading its code.

— Ellen Ullman

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

— Karl Lehenbauer

Too much information will make your brain choke.

— Bryan Davis

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer