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

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.

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.

Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.

Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

There is no clear distiction between white supremacy and the multicultual mindset.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.