Code Quotes

..clarity and correctness matter much more than the utmost speed.

There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it.

If anyone want to challenge I'll teach him until the finals. I will win because I'm the source code.

Rosabelle — answer — tell — pray, answer — look — tell — answer, answer — tell.

I've just made partials if you pull from my banana draw.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

[on Morse Code] There's a fluency to them, a rhythm that's spontaneous, as though the clicks were somehow speaking on their own and didn't need the detectors...The static's like the sound of thinking. Not of any single person thinking, nor even a group thinking, collectively. It's bigger than that, wider—and more direct. It's like the sounds of thought itself, its hum and rush.

There are countless ways to create a ruby gem these days but the problem is that they are all pretty bat-shit mental.

"Waiting for IE 6 to render" is the new "Waiting for tests to finish" is the new "Waiting for the compiler to finish". #molasses