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Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places. — Martin Fowler

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat. — Bear Bryant

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done. — W.E.B. Du Bois

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them. — Michael Josephson

the poorly typed lines, the symbols and abbreviations of Internet chat that make such language seem so much like a process of decay. As — Garth Greenwell

Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not. — Zora Neale Hurston

I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. — Robert Jarvik

I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality. ("The Writer's Kitchen") — Rosario Ferre

Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly. — Patrick DeWitt

When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself. — Greg Norman

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. — Karl Kraus

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher

Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

As rain pours through poorly thatched houses, so does desire penetrate an undeveloped mind. — Thich Nhat Hanh

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. — Joyce Carol Oates

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. — Dave Barry

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. — Michael Porter

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. — Andre Maurois

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin. — T. B. Joshua

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men: your world is a poorly run carnage fest. — Henry Rollins

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. — Voltaire

But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti. — Andrew Hunt

The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house. — Patrik Sinkewitz

Pitching ... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears. — Dennis Eckersley

It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly. — Hojo Shigetoki

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. — Mitch Kapor

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together. — Andrew Bird

A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish. — Vincent De Paul

The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets. — William J. Bernstein

I will respect everyone, even if they treat me poorly, because I am not responsible for the misguidance of others. — Emma Paul

Life is a mysterious journey toward the unknown.
You are a very poorly informed and ignorant traveler. — Debasish Mridha

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. — Wynton Marsalis

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly. — Richard K. Morgan

Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And — Gregory David Roberts

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. — Sandra Bernhard

A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it. — Mark W. Boyer

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. — Douglas Wood

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard

You lie. Worse, you lie poorly. — George R R Martin

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. — Sheldon B. Kopp

I know what's best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not. — Florence Harding

A coward purposely performs poorly to blame others for their own failures. — Ben Tolosa

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page. — Jeffrey Zeldman

If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress, and if she's impeccably dressed, you notice the woman. — Coco Chanel

In fact, when all three of them were together Harry felt like the only non-mourner at a poorly attended funeral — J.K. Rowling

If we speak poorly about that which we do well ... people will assume we perform poorly! — Dale Carnegie

Poorly dressed Anarecsian warrioress who looked chilly in every sense of the word. — Anonymous

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well. — Zig Ziglar

The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done. — Donald Barthelme

If you treat your wife poorly do not think you'd treat Jesus well. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Nothing like the tour to show people how poorly they fit together. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. — George Grosz

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly. — Dianna Booher

Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders? — Ted Rall

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ... — Simone Weil

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written — Isaac

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny. — Lydia M. Child

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range. — Ernie Els

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not. — Lawrence Wright

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. — John Malkovich

Well, it doesn't work. Lowering standards just leads to poorly educated students who feel entitled to easy work and lavish praise. — Matthew Syed

When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and its gonna go so poorly. — Neil Hilborn

Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth. — Lauren Graham

poorly performing investments, and stagnating or falling wages. At the same time there are, we are told, more billionaires than ever. The rich — Harvey Walsh

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer

I do sarcasm really poorly. — Brittany Murphy

This is how we make important changes-- barely, poorly, slowly. — Anne Lamott

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. — Chuck Palahniuk

But just because you're transparent about treating people poorly doesn't mean you're not an asshole for doing it. — Jennifer Tress

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel. — Barack Obama

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. — Jeff VanderMeer

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done. — Mitchell Baker

Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines. — Peggy Randall-Martin

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately. — Charles Kuralt

A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie. — Stephen Fry

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. — Mark Twain

Facts are important, but the story matters. Poorly presented facts can even get in the way of the story's impact. — Blake Mycoskie

poorly. Then I fell — Mary Harrison

The story of Genesis could only be a poorly written misconception that put needless blame on women. Estella — Ira Smith

To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult. — Pepe Romero

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative. — Edward Norton

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. — Jim Rohn

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. — Jessica Lange

Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. — William Shakespeare

Complex problems are often open-ended and poorly defined — Marjan Van Den Belt

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. — Daniel Barenboim

And it is these heavily armed and poorly paid men who are entrusted with the work of protecting the citizenry. — Teju Cole

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer) — Sybil MacBeth

Peak performance is dependent on passion, grit, determination, and a willingness to do something poorly until you can do it well. — Zig Ziglar

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately. — Robert Aickman

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. — Irving Stone

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. — Theodore Sturgeon

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas. — Kgalema Motlanthe

Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show — Shannon Lynette

The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there. — Jonathan Tropper

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. — George Bernard Shaw