"People also underestimate the time they spend debugging. They underestimate how much time they can spend chasing a lo…"

"Transparency is valuable, but while many things can be made transparent in distributed objects, performance isn't usu…"

"Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure wi…"

"Often designers do complicated things that improve the capacity on a particular hardware platform when it might actua…"

"Modeling Principle: Models are not right or wrong; they are more or less useful."

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

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

"The second problem [with using UML for the purposes of this book] is that the Unified Modeling Language concentrates …"

"When you find you have to add a feature to a program, and the program's code is not structured in a convenient way to…"

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