Concurrency Quote by Brian Goetz

“Using a method to change a property is another example of encapsulation whereby we can often improve the maintainability and extensibility of code by…

— Eric Freeman

“Encapsulation is important, but the reason why it is important is more important. Encapsulation helps us reason about our code.”

— Michael C. Feathers

“It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later.”

— Brian Goetz

“Immutable objects are simple. They can only be in one state, which is carefully controlled by the constructor. One of the most difficult elements…

— Brian Goetz

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed…

— Eric S. Raymond

“Abstraction is useful in software because it allows the programmer to: • hide irrelevant detail, and concentrate on essentials. • present a “black box”…

— Peter van der Linden

“Without an understanding of purpose, misuse is inevitable; abuse unavoidable.”

— Pedro Okoro

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

— Joel Spolsky

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

— Steve McConnell

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

— Henry Spencer

“methods in objects are properties too. They just happen to have a function assigned to them.”

— Eric Freeman

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan