Richard E. Pattis Quotes

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.

The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.