Work Quotes

"A program should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

"Motivation fades; discipline persists."

"The most important principle for the good programmer is to refuse to write code that is difficult to understand."

"A program that has not been tested does not work."

"The key to reliable software is simplicity and clarity."

"Complexity has to go somewhere; if not in the code, then in the data."

"The reason we build software is because we want to prevent bugs."

"When you don't use the standard, people won't know what to expect."

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"Interfaces are not determined by what a designer thinks is cool."

"Code that is easy to read is easy to maintain."

"Optimization is the root of all evil in programming."

"Code should be written for humans first and computers second."

"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought coupled with judiciously placed print statements."

"Testing shows the presence, not the absence, of bugs."

"The best comments are those that explain why, not what."

"The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it."

"Errors are best caught at compile time, not run time."

"I am a strong believer in the principle of separation of concerns."

"The hardest part of programming is not coding, but understanding."

"The best way to write secure code is to understand the threats."

"Optimization of the design and implementation is most effective when applied to the most frequently executed parts of a program."

"The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places."

"Always measure before you optimize."

"Good design is harder than good code."

"The most important rule in programming is never to trust the user."

"The worst thing you can do is to optimize before you have a working program."

"Remember that the goal of good design is not to create something clever, but something clear."

"I believe strongly in the principle that interfaces should be complete and minimal."

"Measure twice, code once."