Quotes About Clarity

If you have to translate code to statements to understand it, it should probably be statements in the first place.

When people write software, they are not writing it for themselves. In fact, they are not even writing primarily for the computer. Rather, good programmers know that code is written for the next human being who has to read it in order to maintain or reuse it. If that person cannot understand the code, it's all but useless in a realistic development scenario.

As usual in programming, if something is difficult for you to understand, it's probably not a good idea.

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

In the Python way of thinking, explicit is better than implicit, and simple is better than complex.1

Honestly, I've never felt better in my life. It's like somebody flicked a switch and I've suddenly realized how crazy I'd been acting all those years. All that talk about interfacing with an ultra-dimensional Phoenix deity – it was absolutely insane.

To find meaning and truth in life place a blindfold on and observe your surroundings, you may find it right in front of you."-Mark Miller

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.

The brutality of the world lay beyond my understanding.

Ambiguity is more convincing than certainty.

the biggest driver of project success rates, it seems, is the clarity of strategic focus before any ideas are developed.

If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

Silence is so accurate

On every long run that has gone right, there comes a point where thinking stops and thoughts begin.

antidote to choking or the yips is always the same: focus on this moment, this point, this delivery and nothing else.

Running, I shall argue, is a way of understanding what is important or valuable in life.

If your fiction is good and true, your novel's ending will discover itself.

Writing is an act of revelation--to one's self and the world.

Write a novel so clear and compelling you'll never need to explain what it's about.

The world is exactly as it appears, if only you look hard enough.

My writing is how I maintain.

Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?