Quotes to share among software developers

I have been migrating a functionality from VB6 to .Net code. Tasks like this can be tricky. Normally, the original developer is no longer around left behind him/her a piece of code with no documentation about the business rules - they are hidden gems to be discovered.

I started reading the code. Anyway, the code is the best documentation a developer can have. The frustrating bit is that the main method printed out to be 5 double sided A4 pages. FIVE double sided pages of code for a single method! Every time I see code like this, I want to cry it out - could you mighty developer have some sympathy towards those who end up maintaining your great piece of work? Could you at least cut it into shorter methods with meaningful names (function names and variable names)?

Quotes like the following should be shared among developers. Something I'd love to remind myself from time to time so that people who picks up my work later won't want to kill me. I admit that sometimes I couldn't understand my own code in couple of months time, but I promise that I won't write a single method lasts for pages and pages ;).

Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
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... nearly everybody is convinced that every style but their own is ugly and unreadable. Leave out the "but their own" and they're probably right...
--Jerry Coffin (on indentation) [source]

If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
--Linux 1.3.53 CodingStyle documentation [ source]

It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
--Steve McConnell [ source]

If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
--attributed to Norm Schryer  [source]


If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
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Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?
--Anonymous [ source]

Computers are high-speed idiots, programmed by low-speed idiots
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