Quotes About Understandability

We want our code to be a quick skim, not an intense study.

Good code is its own best documentation.

developers should be able to understand and update the code of a service without knowing anything about the internals of its peer services. Services

So we are living in a more and more fragile world, while thinking it is more and more understandable.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

Information architecture (IA) is a design discipline that is focused on making information findable and understandable. Because of this, it is uniquely well suited to address these challenges. IA allows us to think about problems through two important perspectives: that information products and services are perceived by people as places made of information, and that these information environments can be organized for optimum findability and understandability.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

In general, simple is better than complex, explicit is better than implicit, and full statements are better than arcane expressions.