Clean Code Quotes

#1. My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.

Willie Herenton

#2. If you let the tests rot, then your code will rot too. Keep your tests clean.

Robert C. Martin

#3. Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.

Robert C. Martin

#4. You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected." Half

Robert C. Martin

#5. If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.

Susane Colasanti

#6. Code, without tests, is not clean. No matter how elegant it is, no matter how readable and accessible, if it hath not tests, it be unclean. Dave

Robert C. Martin

#7. A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

John Allen Fraser

#8. Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

Robert C. Martin

#9. To write clean code, you must first write dirty code and then clean it.

Robert C. Martin

#10. Education is something you can not finish.

Isaac Asimov

#11. I never know which Starr I should be. I can use some slang, but not too much slang, some attitude, but not too much attitude, so I'm not a "sassy black girl." I have to watch what I say and how I say it, but I can't sound "white." Shit

Angie Thomas

#12. Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,
Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Alexander Pope

#13. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

C.M. Stunich

#14. My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.

Henry Rollins

#15. Duplication and expressiveness take me a very long way into what I consider clean code, and improving dirty code with just these two things in mind can make a huge difference. There is, however, one other thing that I'm aware of doing, which is a bit harder to explain.

Robert C. Martin

#16. Life isn't fair.

Anonymous

#17. It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

John Green

#18. Programming is a social activity.

Robert C. Martin

#19. So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

Richard Hooker

#20. Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.

Robert C. Martin

#21. A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

Morris Chestnut

#22. Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.

Robert C. Martin

#23. Is there a way to choose a few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things halfway or not at all? Can we accept the fact that we may be in a season when we need to say no with the understanding that the season will not last forever?

Stephen W. Smith

#24. Functional tests should help you build an application with the right functionality, and guarantee you never accidentally break it. Unit tests should help you to write code that's clean and bug free.

Anonymous

#25. Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best.

Robert C. Martin

#26. She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.

Elizabeth Wein