CodeQuotes » Maintenance http://codequotes.com random technology quotations Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:38:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Fowler on ugly code http://codequotes.com/2009/11/07/fowler-on-ugly-code http://codequotes.com/2009/11/07/fowler-on-ugly-code#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:19:52 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2009/11/07/fowler-on-ugly-code “Even so the program works. Is this not just an aesthetic judgment, a dislike of ugly code? It is until we want to change the system. The compiler doesn’t care whether the code is ugly or clean. But when we change the system, there is a human involved, and humans do care. A poorly designed system is hard to change. Hard because it is hard to figure out where the changes are needed. If it is hard to figure out what to change, there is a strong chance that the programmer will make a mistake and introduce bugs.”

— Martin Fowler, Refactoring

]]> http://codequotes.com/2009/11/07/fowler-on-ugly-code/feed 0 Appleton: No code http://codequotes.com/2008/05/24/no-code http://codequotes.com/2008/05/24/no-code#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 03:18:14 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2008/05/24/no-code “There is No CODE That is More Flexible Than NO Code!”

— Brad Appleton

]]> http://codequotes.com/2008/05/24/no-code/feed 0 Brown: Bugs and features http://codequotes.com/2006/08/08/brown-bugs-and-features http://codequotes.com/2006/08/08/brown-bugs-and-features#comments Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:58:11 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/08/06/brown-bugs-and-features “Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”

— Bruce Brown

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/08/08/brown-bugs-and-features/feed 0 Parnas: Software systems http://codequotes.com/2006/04/05/parnas-software-systems http://codequotes.com/2006/04/05/parnas-software-systems#comments Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:05:46 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/04/05/parnas-software-systems “As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”

— Dave Parnas

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/04/05/parnas-software-systems/feed 0 Bloch: The importance of unimportant parts http://codequotes.com/2006/02/21/arthur-bloch-the-importance-of-unimportant-parts http://codequotes.com/2006/02/21/arthur-bloch-the-importance-of-unimportant-parts#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:59:04 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/02/21/arthur-bloch-the-importance-of-unimportant-parts “If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.”

— Arthur Bloch

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— Martin Golding

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/02/05/golding-on-maintenance/feed 0 Hornig: Maintenance http://codequotes.com/2006/02/04/hornig-maintenance http://codequotes.com/2006/02/04/hornig-maintenance#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:37:44 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/?p=4 “Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.”

— Jim Hornig

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