Joshua Bloch Quotes

#1. Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.

Joshua Bloch

#2. There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

Tyler Perry

#3. A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Joshua Bloch

#4. Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.

Joshua Bloch

#5. It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

Joshua Bloch

#6. My fist is her flag still furled. Take the cannoli and leave the tuxedo - This is my jackleg opera to the world.

B.J. Ward

#7. When in doubt, leave it out.

Joshua Bloch

#8. When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

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#9. I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

Tracy Pollan

#10. There was always something. It's like with this one, there's always something that's mad that I look back on it and go, that's pretty amazing to say that I've done that or been there.

Karl Pilkington

#11. To dance is human, to polka is divine.

K.d. Lang

#12. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?

Mary Roach

#13. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.

Germany Kent

#14. If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place

Benny Bellamacina

#15. I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

Susanna Clarke

#16. Favor composition over inheritance,

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#17. First, the written pattern is more complete. It has been studied, characterized, classified, and explained.

Dave Hoover

#18. If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

David Caruso

#19. I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

Harvey Fierstein

#20. They had known nothing of each other only hours ago, and yet, there had been a knowledge shared between them in those moments before they danced, and now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#21. It's that I think Will is angry with me," Tessa explained. "So whatever he told you - "
He laughed. "Will is angry with everyone," he said. "I don't let it color my judgment.

Cassandra Clare

#22. For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Daniel Clowes

#23. 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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#24. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [

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#25. One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

Joshua Bloch