10 Quotes by Joshua Bloch

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

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

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.

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 in doubt, leave it out.

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

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

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 or an appropriate subtype is generally the best return type for a public, sequence- returning method.