Programming Quote by Robert C. Martin

““Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don’t become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.””

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“The problem that Dijkstra recognized, early on, was that programming is hard, and that programmers don’t do it very well.”

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“The majority of the cost of a software project is in long-term maintenance.”

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“Duplication may be the root of all evil in software.”

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