Code That Fits in Your Head Quotes

“Providing technical expertise includes not confusing stakeholders with details they can’t make sense of or use.”
― Mark Seemann, Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering

“The more you produce, the more you have to read. Automated code generation only makes matters worse. As Martin Fowler writes about low code quality: “Even small changes require programmers to understand large areas of code, code that’s difficult to understand.” [32] Code that’s difficult to understand slows you down. On the other hand, every minute you invest in making the code easier to understand pays itself back tenfold.”
― Mark Seemann, Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering

“3.2 Why Programming Is Difficult What makes software development so hard? There’s more than one reason. One is, as discussed in section 1.1, that we’re using the wrong metaphors. That clouds our thinking, but that’s not the only reason. Another problem is that a computer is quantitatively different from a brain. Yes, that’s another problematic metaphor”
― Mark Seemann, Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering

“The future is unevenly distributed. Turn the controls on. Improve the outcome with no increase in skill.”
― Mark Seemann, Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering

“Anyway, it made me think of just how hard programming actually is. And it is hard. It’s really hard. It may be the hardest thing that humans have ever attempted.”
― Mark Seemann, Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering