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 <p style="text-align:right;">&mdash;Emanuel Derman. ''My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance.'' Wiley, 2007.</p>
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	<p style="text-align:right;">—Kent Beck. ''Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change.''</p>		<p style="text-align:right;">—Kent Beck. ''Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change.''</p>

			=Grady Booch=

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			Clean code is simple and direct. Clean code reads like well-written prose. Clean code never obscures the designer's intent but rather is full of crisp abstractions and straightforward lines of control.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">—Grady Booch. Quoted in: Robert C. Martin. ''Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship''. Prentice Hall (1 Aug. 2008).</p>

			=Ward Cunningham=

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			You know you are working on clean code when each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">—Ward Cunningham. Quoted in: Robert C. Martin. ''Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship''. Prentice Hall (1 Aug. 2008).</p>

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	Assembly language programming is an extravagant waste of not only human talent and should be avoided whenever possible.		Assembly language programming is an extravagant waste of not only human talent and should be avoided whenever possible.
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	<p style="text-align:right;">Peter Norton~~, quoted~~ in "PC Languages: The Living and the Dead", ''PC Magazine'', September 1983, pp. 99–101</p>		<p style="text-align:right;">Peter Norton. Quoted in "PC Languages: The Living and the Dead", ''PC Magazine'', September 1983, pp. 99–101</p>

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			I like my code to be elegant and efficient. The logic should be straightforward to make it hard for bugs to hide, the dependencies minimal to ease maintenance, error handling complete according to an articulated strategy, and performance close to optimal so as not to tempt people to make the code messy with unprincipled optimizations. Clean code does one thing well.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">—Bjarne Stroustrup. Quoted in: Robert C. Martin. ''Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship''. Prentice Hall (1 Aug. 2008).</p>

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	<p style="text-align:right;">—Kent Beck. ''Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change.''</p>		<p style="text-align:right;">—Kent Beck. ''Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change.''</p>

			=Emanuel Derman=

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			...at AT&T in 1980, the whole firm was embracing C, the simultaneously graceful and yet practical language invented by Dennis Ritchie about ten years earlier at Murray Hill. He had devised C to be a high-level tool with which to write portable versions of UNIX, the operating system also invented there by Ken Thompson and Ritchie. Now everything from telephone switching systems to word-processing software was being written in C, on UNIX, all with amazing style. Eventually, even physicists, who are generally interested only in the number of digits after a decimal point, began to forsake ugly utilitarian FORTRAN for poetically stylish C. Programming was in the late stages of a revolution about which I was just beginning to learn.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">—Emanuel Derman. ''My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance.'' Wiley, 2007.</p>

	=Martin Fowler=		=Martin Fowler=

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	<p style="text-align:right;">—Donald Knuth. Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming. ''AI Podcast'' (December 30, 2019).</p>		<p style="text-align:right;">—Donald Knuth. Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming. ''AI Podcast'' (December 30, 2019).</p>

			=Peter Norton=

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			Assembly language programming is an extravagant waste of not only human talent and should be avoided whenever possible.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">Peter Norton, quoted in "PC Languages: The Living and the Dead", ''PC Magazine'', September 1983, pp. 99–101</p>

	=Antoine de Saint Exupéry=		=Antoine de Saint Exupéry=

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	<p style="text-align:right;">—Chris Heilmann.</p>		<p style="text-align:right;">—Chris Heilmann.</p>

			=Cory House=

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			Code is like humor. When you ''have'' to explain it, it's bad.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">—Cory House. ''Twitter'' (@housecor, Nov 13, 2013).</p>

	=Donald Knuth=		=Donald Knuth=

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	It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.		It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.
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	<p style="text-align:right;">—Antoine de Saint Exupéry.</p>		<p style="text-align:right;">—Antoine de Saint Exupéry. ''Terre des Hommes'' (1939).</p>

	=Bjarne Stroustrup=		=Bjarne Stroustrup=

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 <p style="text-align:right;">&mdash;Donald Knuth. Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming. ''AI Podcast'' (December 30, 2019).</p>
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	<p style="text-align:right;">—Martin Fowler. ''Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.''</p>		<p style="text-align:right;">—Martin Fowler. ''Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.''</p>

			=Chris Heilmann=

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			Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">—Chris Heilmann.</p>

	=Donald Knuth=		=Donald Knuth=

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	=Martin Fowler=		=Martin Fowler=

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			Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">—Martin Fowler. ''Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.''</p>

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	<p style="text-align:right;">—Bjarne Stroustrup. ''The Design and Evolution of C++'', p. 207.</p>		<p style="text-align:right;">—Bjarne Stroustrup. ''The Design and Evolution of C++'', p. 207.</p>

			=Arthur Whitney=

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			Only short programs have any hope of being correct.
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			<p style="text-align:right;">—Arthur Whitney.</p>