Kent Beck: Code

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“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 15

“When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.”

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 88

“When you find you have to add a feature to a program, and the program's code is not structured in a convenient way to add the feature, first refactor the program to make it easy to add the feature, then add the feature.”

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 7