Joshua Bloch famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.
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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.
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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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Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
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History is the great propagator of doubt.
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.
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The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
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Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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.
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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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