“Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.” ShouldQualityWrittenProgramCodeAcquireProgrammingPublicationPolishedSoftware EngineeringCode Quality Author:Niklaus Wirth
“Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products” PeopleWellsQualityEffectsProductsStandardsPerfectionPressureCodeProgrammingEngineersSoftware EngineeringDetrimentalCode Quality Author:Niklaus Wirth
“Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.” ShowsQualityProgramStructureCodeVisualsProgrammingLogicalSoftware EngineeringLayoutCode Quality Author:Steve McConnell
“Don't document bad code - rewrite it.” QualityCodeProgrammingDocumentsSoftware EngineeringCode Quality Author:Brian Kernighan
“An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.” QualityCodeProgrammingSoftware EngineeringCode Quality Author:James Gosling
“Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.” ProgrammingComputer ProgrammersDocumentation Author:Bertrand Meyer
“A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.” KnowsWorldSaidTwoWarFallFighterWar Of The WorldsAviationBroadsCategoriesCombatWorld War IiPilotsWorld War IHuntersHuntedAcesFighter Pilot Author:Nathan Farragut Twining
“You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.” MachinesDiedBreathsDespiteFighterAviationBottlesCombatSteelOxygenHollowVacuumsChilledCanopyCockpit Book:The Hunters Source: The Hunters