Martin Fowler Quotes

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

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

I've learned to always avoid saying "always"

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.