108 Quotes by Robert C. Martin

The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made

If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the debugger.

Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.

A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment.

Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

If the discipline of requirements specification has taught us anything, it is that well-specified requirements are as formal as code and can act as executable tests of that code!

The LSP makes clear that in OOD the ISA relationship pertains to behavior. Not intrinsic private behavior, but extrinsic public behavior; behavior that clients depend upon.

the fact that oo languages provide safe and convenient polymorphism means that any source code dependency, no matter where it is, can be inverted

Il campo @author di un Javadoc ci dice chi siamo. Siamo gli autori. E una caratteristica degli autori è che hanno dei lettori. In effetti, è responsabilità degli autori riuscire a comunicare bene coi loro lettori. La prossima volta che scriverete una riga di codice, ricordatevi che voi ne siete gli autori, e che scrivete a dei lettori che vi giudicheranno per quello che avrete scritto.