Martin Fowler

"Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. Its heart is a series of small behavior prese…"

"Often designers do complicated things that improve the capacity on a particular hardware platform when it might actually be cheaper to buy more hardware."

"People also underestimate the time they spend debugging. They underestimate how much time they can spend chasing a long bug. With testing, I know straight away when I added a bug. That lets me fix the…"

"It is commonly said that a pattern, however it is written, has four essential parts: a statement of the context where the pattern is useful, the problem that the pattern addresses, the forces that pla…"

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

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"The definition I use for a pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others"

"One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is to avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extre…"