"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…"

"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…"

"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 …"

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