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“Often designers do complicated things that improve the capacity on a particular hardware platform when it might actually be cheaper to buy more hardware.”

Martin Fowler (2012) Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

“Transparency is valuable, but while many things can be made transparent in distributed objects, performance isn't usually one of them.”

Fowler (2003) in: Software development. Vol. 11. p. 99

“One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase.”

Martin Fowler as cited in: James Shore, Shane Warden (2007) The Art of Agile Development. p. 319

“People also underestimate the time they spend debugging. They underestimate how much time they can spend chasing a long bug. With testing, I know straight away when I added a bug. That lets me fix the bug immediately, before it can crawl off and hide. There are few things more frustrating or time wasting than debugging. Wouldn't it be a hell of a lot quicker if we just didn't create the bugs in the first place?”

Martin Fowler (2002) as cited in Evolutionary Design: A Conversation with Martin Fowler, Part III by Bill Venners, November 18, 2002.