"In almost all cases, Iâ€™m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little bursts."

-- Martin Fowler

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“Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.”
“A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.”
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”

Source : Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4177, Simon and Schuster
“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
“In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.”
“In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.”
“Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."”
“I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.”

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