Robert Cecil Martin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?
-- Robert Cecil Martin

#Tests #Firsts #Programming
The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.
-- Robert Cecil Martin

#Use #Programming #Comment
If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.
-- Robert Cecil Martin

#Rain #Learning #Simplicity
I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more importantly, I am here as an advocate for children and families, for healthy communities, for economic development, for scholars and researchers, for individuals who seek educational and informational resources throughout their lives.
-- Robert Cecil Martin

#Children #Educational #Unique
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death and creates more stress and appeals, even as it is plagued by serious error. Each new exoneration reminds us of the unacceptable possibility of wrongful execution.
-- Robert Cecil Martin

#Stress #Errors #Growing
They are obviously pirate services. Sure they might be able to survive as small businesses, but it's hard to get advertisers to advertise on a pirate site. It's a hugely fragmented market.
-- Robert Cecil Martin

#Reality #Pirate #Might

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.
Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Robert Cecil Martin famous quotes

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