Quotes About Clarity

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

Maybe I sounded like I knew what I was talking about.

Lots of shifting diagrams and numbers that might as well have been abstract art as far as I was concerned.

opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do. What I should do. What I needed to do.

I don't make threats, I'm just telling you what I'm going to do.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

Now that I knew where we were going, it was a lot easier to get there

It makes it sound like the halves are discrete...As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do.

So maybe the experience of loss not only helps clarify what is important to us, but also helps us know where we are and the direction in which we want to go. In

Don't go wishing for what you know nothing about.

Lighthouses Point the Way Home This above all: To thine own self be true… —William Shakespeare

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

Solitude is the place of purification.

There are three principles in a man's being and life: The principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Use clear, crisp, lively verbs to express the actions in your document, and avoid using noun strings.

Put accurate punctuation at the heart of your writing.

For diagrams comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Code that communicates its purpose is very important. I often refactor just when I'm reading some code. That way as I gain understanding about the program, I embed that understanding into the code for later so I don't forget what I learned.

If oy have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Whenever I have to think to understand what the code is doing, I ask myself if I can refactor the code to make that understanding more immediately apparent.