Quotes About Transparency

Ward's principle: "You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected.

Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.

One difference between a smart programmer and a professional programmer is that the professional understands that clarity is king. Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand.

Some folks think that Agile is about going fast. It's not. It's never been about going fast. Agile is about knowing, as early as possible, just how screwed we are.

Programmers must avoid leaving false clues that obscure the meaning of code.

Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals.

But he could have been lying." "I don't know that he ever lied, Tyler. He was just a little stingy with the truth.

So often we think that power has changed people, when in fact it simply reveals more of who they are.

Not just pain, but bullshit. Avoiding bullshit.

Honesty is actually a blunt instrument, which bloodies more than it cuts.

Trata de persuadir a una persona apelando a su conciencia, diciendo lo que quieres, mostrando todas tus cartas, ¿y qué esperanza te queda? Serás sólo una irritación más por eliminar.

By being unabashedly open you make yourself so predictable and familiar that it is almost impossible to respect or fear you, and power will not accrue to a person who cannot inspire such emotions.

Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals—just not your real ones.

Con demasiada frecuencia creemos que el poder cambia a la gente, cuando en realidad la muestra tal como es.

There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses.

The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.

and then I shall face the politician's worst nightmare: the requirement to give a straight answer.

All his depths were on the surface.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

a open pot can't hide, a inch-opened door can't hide much, but an open man is hiding the universe. she says something else, but i cannot remember the rest.

En un tiempo de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario.

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

Disclosure of details in the CIA budget, for example, could reveal major new allocations for a covert operation or new investments in satellites. Too much transparency by a company could expose investments in new products or changes in strategy that would provide advantages to competitors.

What an important lesson for all of us! The words that come out of our mouths are a direct indicator of what is in our hearts. Idle