Kevlin Henney

write code support life

“Write code as if you had to support it for the rest of your life.”

― Kevlin Henney

Hoare software design simple obvious deficiency complicated

“As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”

― Kevlin Henney

beauty born found simplicity

“Beauty is born of and found in simplicity.”

― Kevlin Henney

bugs progress waste

“Fixing bugs is not making progress. You aren't paid to debug. Debugging is waste.”

― Kevlin Henney

no code faster

“There is no code faster than no code.”

― Kevlin Henney