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The foremost requirement for potent leadership is humility, so that leaders can fully understand and appreciate their own shortfalls.
“My parents taught us that wealth or position can be taken away, but no one can take the knowledge in your head.”
― Call Me an American: Refugee to Patriot: Lessons Learned for a Strong America
― Call Me an American: Refugee to Patriot: Lessons Learned for a Strong America
“The bottom line is that your own understanding of what you are cleaning will work against your ability to communicate with the next person to come along.”
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
“So, the first answer to why we should clean our code is that our civilization needs us to behave as professionals, and that if we fail in that responsibility, our governments will force inconvenient and ineffective rules upon us.”
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
“So why should we clean our code? Because cleaning our code is the best way for a team to remain productive. If we allow the mess to build, we lay the groundwork for the disaster I just described. But if we keep the code clean, productivity will remain high, the development team will not demand a redesign, and the managers will not desperately try to increase productivity by adding more and more manpower.”
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
“The bottom line is that your own understanding of what you are cleaning will work against your ability to communicate with the next person to come along. And this will be true whether you are extracting well-named methods, or adding descriptive comments. Therefore, take special care when choosing names and writing comments; and don’t be surprised if others are annoyed by your choices. Lastly, a look after a few months can be both humbling and profitable.”
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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