Quotes About Consistency

La fiabilidad. Si solo pudiéramos elegir una cualidad de la que dotar a la gente con la que interactuamos, esa sería la de la fiabilidad.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Or, at least, so goes a frequently heard quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

the most important feature of a map is the degree of correspondence between the elements in the map and the elements of the territory they represent.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same."

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Duplication is the primary enemy of a well-designed system.

Clean code can be read, and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. It has unit and acceptance tests. It has meaningful names. It provides one way rather than many ways for doing one thing. It has minimal dependencies, which are explicitly defined, and provides a clear and minimal API. Code should be literate since depending on the language, not all necessary information can be expressed clearly in code alone. -Dave Thomas, founder of OTI, godfather of the Eclipse strategy

Variables in functional languages do not vary.

WHICH LINES DO YOU DRAW, AND WHEN DO YOU DRAW THEM? You draw lines between things that matter and things that don't. The GUI doesn't matter to the business rules, so there should be a line between them. The database doesn't matter to the GUI, so there should be a line between them. The database doesn't matter to the business rules, so there should be a line between them.

You should choose a set of simple rules that govern the format of your code, and then you should consistently apply those rules. If you are working on a team, then the team should agree to a single set of formatting rules and all members should comply.

Gather together those things that change at the same times and for the same reasons. Separate those things that change at different times or for different reasons.

You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected.

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

Making the code read like a top-down set of TO paragraphs is an effective technique for keeping the abstraction level consistent.

Don't depend on volatile things. GUIs are volatile.

Master the Small Things

We humans like to believe that we are consistent and mature, and that we have reasonable control over our lives. We make decisions based on rational considerations, on what will benefit us the most. We have free will. We know who we are, more or less. But in one particular aspect of life these self-opinions are all easily shattered - when we fall in love.

People never do something just once.