#program

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#computer #i #program #really #simple

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#big #combination #first #going #hit

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features. ↗

— Douglas Crockford

#philosophy #programming #simplicity #software-development #design

The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles. ↗

— Steven S. Skiena

#design

That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions. ↗

— Scott Meyers

#funny #nerdy #programming #design

Immutable objects are simple. They can only be in one state, which is carefully controlled by the constructor. One of the most difficult elements of program design is reasoning about the possible states of complex objects. Reasoning about the state of immutable objects, on the other hand, is trivial. Immutable objects are also safer. Passing a mutable object to untrusted code, or otherwise publishing it where untrusted code could find it, is dangerous — the untrusted code might modify its state, or, worse, retain a reference to it and modify its state later from another thread. On the other hand, immutable objects cannot be subverted in this manner by malicious or buggy code, so they are safe to share and publish freely without the need to make defensive copies. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #design

It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #design

Truth can only be found in one place: the code. ↗

— Robert C. Martin

#software-craftmanship #software-design #software-engineering #design

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#encourage #programs #use #yet