Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

LeBlanc’s law: Later equals never.

Smart people sometimes like to show off their smarts by demonstrating their mental juggling abilities.

Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

The reason is simple. Programmers can’t realistically maintain them.

We want their eyebrows to rise as they scroll through the modules. We want them to perceive that professionals have been at work. If instead they see a scrambled mass of code that looks like it was written by a bevy of drunken sailors, then they are likely to conclude that the same inattention to detail pervades every other aspect of the project.