Quotes tagged under complexity

The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application.

The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.

Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems not to apply [to] software nowadays.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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.