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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.

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

A long bow and a strong bow,
And let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
And a foreign king for a mark!

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

The complexity you remove can never fail.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.