Quotes About Robert

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees,(If our loves remain)In an English lane.

Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,By famous Hanover city.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

An' there began a lang digressionAbout the lords o' the creation.

Before the morn ye'll work mischief:'' Indeed will I,'' quo' Findlay. -?? ??? ?? ???? ??????. -??? ???? - ???? ??????.

All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

SRP is one of the more important concept in OO design. It's also one of the simpler concepts to understand and adhere to. Yet oddly, SRP is often the most abused class design principle.

Flag arguments are ugly. Passing a boolean into a function is a truly terrible practice.

Object-oriented programming is discipline imposed upon indirect transfer of control.

If its dependencies are inverted, it has an OO design. If its dependencies are not inverted, it has a procedural design.

Which kinds of decisions are premature? Decisions that have nothing to do with the business requirements—the use cases—of the system.

Few practices are as odious as commenting-out code. Don't do this!

In an ideal system, we incorporate new features by extending the system, not by making modifications to existing code.

One of the more common motivations for writing comments is bad code.

The Open-Closed Principle (OCP) was coined in 1988 by Bertrand Meyer.1 It says: A software artifact should be open for extension but closed for modification.

SPECIAL CASE PATTERN

The outer circles are mechanisms. The inner circles are policies.

Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.

Some have suggested that in using the latter his inspiration may have been the Lena, a river in eastern Siberia.

The expanded version takes up nearly eighty pages in Volume I of his collected works.

Marxism and the National Question was basically Stalin's, and the collaboration with Lenin that underlay it seems to have been mutually beneficial.

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.