Quotes About Cleanliness

What makes a clean test? Three things. Readability, readability, and readability.

The only way to make the deadline—the only way to go fast—is to keep the code as clean as possible at all times.

Duplication and expressiveness take me a very long way into what I consider clean code, and improving dirty code with just these two things in mind can make a huge difference. There is, however, one other thing that I'm aware of doing, which is a bit harder to explain.

To write clean code, you must first write dirty code and then clean it.

The moral of the story is simple: Test code is just as important as production code. It is not a second-class citizen. It requires thought, design, and care. It must be kept as clean as production code.

Clean code is focused. Each function, each class, each module exposes a single-minded attitude that remains entirely undistracted, and unpolluted, by the surrounding details.

The fact is that making messes is always slower than staying clean, no matter which time scale you are using.

BATHS WERE NOT a luxury. Baths were the foundation of civilisation. Baths were what raised even the meanest citizen of Rome above the level of the wealthiest hairy-arsed barbarian. Baths instilled the triple disciplines of cleanliness, healthfulness and strict routine.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

Augen sind Hände, die man lebenslang nicht wäscht; so behalten sie die schmutzige Gewohnheit, alles anzurühren.

Dirt is just matter out of place.

One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.

If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit to drink.

The Prestige of Laundry

Maybe one day, before the universe died, Unkar Plutt would take a bath.

filth was one of the things that turned you off sex. Smell and stains.

The main sitting-room is large, and though certainly not dirty it is not particularly clean. … [Lewis] never bothers with ashtrays but flicks his cigarette ash … on to the carpet wherever he happens to be standing or sitting. He even absurdly maintains that ash is good for carpets.

So the reason for our cleanliness becomes apparent; cleanliness is a form of apprehension; our faulty racial memory is fathered by fear. Destiny and history are untidy; we fear memory of that disorder.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else