Clean Code Quotes

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

Robert C. Martin

#2. 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

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

Robert C. Martin

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Robert C. Martin

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

Elizabeth Wein

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Programming is a social activity.

Robert C. Martin

#13. 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

#14. Life isn't fair.

Anonymous

#15. 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

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

C.M. Stunich

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

Alexander Pope

#18. 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

#19. Education is something you can not finish.

Isaac Asimov

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Susane Colasanti

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

Robert C. Martin

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

Robert C. Martin

#26. 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