Documentation Quote by Seibel Peter

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

— Steve McConnell

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

Good code is its own best documentation.

— Steve McConnell

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

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”

— Arthur Bloch

“Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.”

— John Connolly

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded.…

— Ellen Ullman

“Fiddling with a program until it appears to work is a reliable way of obtaining a program that almost works”

— Andrew Koenig

“We write programs not because we understand the syntax but to solve a problem”

— Orobor Anderson Ise

“Lots of very funny code is written because people don’t take the time to understand the algorithm.”

— Robert C. Martin

“Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]”

— Michael A. Vine

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

— Karl Lehenbauer