Joshua Bloch
When in doubt, leave it out.Collection: Doubt
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.Collection: Expression
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.Collection: Running
It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.Collection: Writing
When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.Collection: Community
One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.Collection: Names