Binary Code

If you don’t have some downright embarrassing shit-tastic WTF-worthy code lurking in your project—I mean, the kind of thing where you see a bug report go to your coworker, and you say to him, Oh, I’ll take that one, I know that feature, but really, you’re saying Please don’t look at that code, or at least, if you do, please don’t judge me—then you probably weren’t going fast enough.

- Isaac Schlueter, “Going Fast, Frankenstein, and Refactoring”

I’ve heard it said that the difference between a good programmer and a bad programmer is that a good programmer feels pain when he looks at ugly code he’s written, while a bad programmer thinks everything he’s done is great.

- Isaac Schlueter, “Going Fast, Frankenstein, and Refactoring”