"It's harder to read code than to write it."

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Source : Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress

Joel Spolsky

#Writing Quotes #Harder Quotes #Code Quotes

“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”
“Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.”
“I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.”
“The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.”
“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
“A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.”
“Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.”
“BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.”

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