February 2012
6 posts
“The only valid measurement of code quality: WTF’s/minute”
– Cartoon by Thom Holwerda, from the introduction to Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, by Robert C. Marting.
“…Attentiveness to detail is an even more critical foundation of...”
– James O. Coplien, in the introduction to Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, by Robert C. Marting (p. XIX)
“Clean code is simple and direct. Clean code reads like well-written prose. Clean...”
– Grady Booch, as quoted in Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, by Robert C. Marting.
page 8.
“Like a good novel, clean code should clearly expose the tensions in the problem...”
– Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, by Robert C. Marting.
page 8.
“A crucial aspect to this project [the Allen Institute for Brain Science]...”
– from Why We Chose ‘Open Science’
Paul Allen’s op-ed on open science in the WSJ (Nov 30, 2011).
“The most satisfying proofs are existence proofs. A platypus is an existence...”
– James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, 2008. p. 13 