Joshua Bloch Quotes

Favor composition over inheritance,

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

When in doubt, leave it out.