Joshua Bloch Quotes

When in doubt, leave it out.

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

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.

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

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

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.