Max Kanat-Alexander > Quotes

“Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.”
― Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

“The purpose of software is to help people.”
― Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

“You must not design by committee. The result will be an actively bad design — one which makes things more complex instead of simpler.”
― Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

“After 1,000 days, the total future value reaches $1,000,000 and”
― Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

“The chance of introducing a defect into your program is proportional to the size of the changes you make to it.”
― Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

“Programming, in essence, must become the act of reducing complexity to simplicity.”
― Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

“As you decrease the effort of maintenance for your system, you increase the desirability of all possible changes. (Go back to Chapter 3 and take another look at the Equation of Software Design if you want to refresh your memory about the details.) Simplifying your code decreases the effort of maintenance, thereby increasing the desirability of every other possible change.”
― Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software