13 Quotes by Kevlin Henney

Good programming is not born from mere technical competence. I’ve seen highly intellectual programmers who can produce intense and impressive algorithms, who know their language standard by heart, but who write the most awful code.

Write code as if you had to support it for the rest of your life.

Ask yourself, how much of your time do you spend developing someone else’s product? How much developing yourself?

A non-programmer friend once remarked that code looks like poetry. I get that feeling from really good code, that everything in the text has a purpose and that it’s there to help me understand the idea. Unfortunately, writing code doesn’t have the same romantic image aswriting poetry.