Joshua Bloch quotes
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“When in doubt, leave it out.”
-- Joshua BlochSource : "Joshua Bloch: A conversation about design". Interview with Bill Venners, www.javaworld.com. January 4, 2002.
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“One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.”
-- Joshua BlochSource : Joshua Bloch (2008). “Effective Java”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional
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“The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.”
-- Joshua BlochSource : "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming". Book by Peter Seibel, 2009.
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“What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.”
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“It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.”
-- Joshua Bloch
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“Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.”
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“In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”
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“Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.”
Source : "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.
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“Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).”
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“Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.”
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