Quotes About Modifiability

Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

Flexibility isn't a bad thing.

We know how to make flexibility when needed.

Rigidity causes inflexibility to a change. Therefore, be less rigid in all your undertakings in order to be or become more flexible to adopt and adapt to a change. Besides that, it's often ideal to be less rigid and more flexible.

Men are infinitely malleable.

We'd like to keep things flexible;

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

I don't like things set in stone.

If I do have a strength, it probably is adaptability.

the facts change, I change my mind.

I've always been able to look very different very easily.

The only thing set in stone are dumb quotes and names of dead people. Everything else is subject to change.

Every reader of your program should understand what your functions compute without having to read the function itself. A multi-function program should also come with a purpose statement. Indeed, good programmers write two purpose statements: one for the reader who may have to modify the code and another one for the person who wishes to use the program but not read it.