“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.” IfsWayLearningFailingDesignProtectRainConstantFaultsSimplicityDuesProgrammingRequirementsResilientComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageRotting Author:Robert Cecil Martin
“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.” WantHumansChangeHuman BeingsAttitudeLearningComputerProgramTasksSimplicityTraditionalProgrammingSoftwareConstructionExplainingComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Author:Donald Knuth
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” InspirationalSimpleInspiringMusicCreativityLearningDesignJazzSimplicityComplicatedProgrammingJazz MusicSimple LifeCommonplaceSimplifyComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesSimple LivingComplicationComputer LanguageCreative ThinkingJazz MusicianArt And CreativityInspire CreativityPlain And SimpleLiving A Simple LifeSimplicity In DesignDesign InspirationLife Is SimplePlain LanguageSimple SolutionsComplicated LifeLife Is ComplicatedSmooth Jazz Author:Charles Mingus
“We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?” EnoughTimeDealsLearningGardenChaosSimplicityUrgentEco Author:Wendell Berry
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” MotivationalGrowthLearningHonestyInspirational LifeKeysSimplicitySwimmingBrilliance Author:Bruce Lee
“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.” WorldWayCausesLearningComputerHumorousAgreeProfoundSimplicityAccidentsInsaneDestroyedExpertsProgrammingAgreementProgrammersComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceComputer ProgrammersComputer TechnologyComputer SoftwareFunny ComputerProgramming FunnyWhere We Come Author:Nathaniel Borenstein
“It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.” MenLastsSciencePrinciplesLearningSimplicitySimplest Author:Elbert Hubbard
“At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.” WayFirstsHardEnoughUsedGivenPayQualityMillionsLearningRichProjectsHundredDeterminationScientistDollarsMereSimplicityPursuitProgrammingSoftwareCollapseFloodDoomedMillion DollarsProgrammersComputer ProgrammingReliabilitySoftware DesignComputer ProgrammersComputer SoftwareCode Quality Author:Tony Hoare
“Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.” ViewsLearningBuildingDisciplineComputerWingsSimplicityProgrammingMaintenanceComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Author:Jim Horning
“The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.” TryingImportantLearningClearDevelopmentAspectSimplicityProgrammingSoftwareProgrammersSoftware DesignSoftware Development Book:The C++ Programming Language Source: The C++ Programming Language
“Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.” WayWritingHumansHardLanguageProcessAbilityLearningProgramSimplicityUglyCodeBridgesPerceiveRelatedComplexityProgrammingCollapseEngineersElegantLiableSuspension Author:Eric S. Raymond
“And simple truth miscalled simplicity” SimpleLearningSimplicityProgrammingSimple Truths Author:William Shakespeare