“We are much better at writing code than haiku.”

“When we write code, we forgot about the bigger picture.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

“Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.”

Eric S. Raymond (1957) American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement

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

Kent Beck (1961) software engineer

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

Martin Fowler (1963) British programmer

“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.”

Walter Moers (1957) German comic creator and author

“Everyone writes code as they’re used to, and that’s ugly.”

Bjarne Stroustrup (1950) Danish computer scientist, creator of C++

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”

Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) British author

“There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.”

Гарри Кент Маршалл (1934–2016)