Fowler y otras citas

Most times you see a switch statement you should consider polymorphism.

When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.

When you get a bug report, start by writing a unit test that exposes the bug.

[Martin Fowler - Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code]

3.2. Design Heuristics Practice 8:
Defer  decisions as long as possible.
Software architects should postpone decisions as long as possible because they will continuously increase their
understanding of the  problem domain and the design activity, which will enable them to make better decisions
and create better designs later on.
Mark C. Paulk et al, The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process
Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Layne's Law of Debate:
• Every debate is over the definition of a word. Or
• Every debate eventually degenerates into debating the definition of a word. Or
• Once a debate degenerates into debating the definition of a word, the debate is debatably over.