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Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Good programming is good writing.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
People who preach software design as a disciplined activity spend considerable energy making us all feel guilty. We can never be structured enough or object-oriented enough to achieve nirvana in this lifetime. We all truck around a kind of original sin from having learned Basic at an impressionable age. But my bet is that most of us are better designers than the purists will ever acknowledge.
The more dogmatic you are about applying a design method, the fever real-life problems you are going to solve.
[His major concern is] "The principle of One Right Place - there should be One Right Place to look for any nontrivial piece of code, and One Right Place to make a likely maintenance change.
From the book: Code Complete 2.
