Running Quotes by Joshua Bloch

When in doubt, leave it out.

— 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…

— Joshua Bloch

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

Favor composition over inheritance,

— 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

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…

— Joshua Bloch

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

— 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