Joshua Bloch Quotes & Sayings

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 Bloch

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

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

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

Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [ — Joshua Bloch

Favor composition over inheritance, — Joshua Bloch

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names. — Joshua Bloch

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. — Joshua Bloch

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly. — Joshua Bloch

When in doubt, leave it out. — Joshua Bloch

When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community. — Joshua Bloch