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" The majority of the cost of software is incurred after the software has been first deployed. Thinking about my experience of modifying
code, I see that I spend much more time reading the existing code than I do writing new code. If I want to make my code cheap, therefore, I should make it easy to read. "

Kent Beck , Implementation Patterns


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Kent Beck quote : The majority of the cost of software is incurred after the software has been first deployed. Thinking about my experience of modifying<br />code, I see that I spend much more time reading the existing code than I do writing new code. If I want to make my code cheap, therefore, I should make it easy to read.