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

- Joshua Bloch

What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readabl…

- Joshua Bloch

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

- Joshua Bloch

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

- Joshua Bloch

When in doubt, leave it out.

- Joshua Bloch

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.

- Joshua Bloch