Great software, likewise, requ...

Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty.  If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too.  I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way.  It drives me crazy to see code that's badly indented, or that uses ugly variable names.
~Paul Graham, "Hackers and Painters," 2003~

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