Axel Prieto > Axel's Quotes

“At a deep level, all code is about communication: expressing ideas about what you want to achieve.”
― Jon Skeet

“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”
― Kent Beck

“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”
― Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time”
― Michael Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code

“Legacy code. The phrase strikes disgust in the hearts of programmers. It conjures images of slogging through a murky swamp of tangled undergrowth with leaches beneath and stinging flies above. It conjures odors of murk, slime, stagnancy, and offal. Although our first joy of programming may have been intense, the misery of dealing with legacy code is often sufficient to extinguish that flame.”
― Michael Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“Prior preparation prevents poor performance.”
― James Baker

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche