“Without a shared design language and practices, collaboration is difficult.”
― Design Systems
― Design Systems
“To summarize, a great business will show the following characteristics in its financial statements: Earnings show a smooth upward trend Consistent return on equity (ROE) greater than 20% Consistent return on total capital (ROTC) greater than 15% Long-term debt less than 4 times earnings”
― Invest Like Warren Buffett: Powerful Strategies for Building Wealth
― Invest Like Warren Buffett: Powerful Strategies for Building Wealth
“It is difficult beyond description to pursue a complex policy in a contentious part of the world when the policy is subject to instant modification based on the boss’s perception of how inaccurate and often-already-outdated information is reported by writers who don’t have the Administration’s best interests at heart in the first place. It was like making and executing policy inside a pinball machine, not the West Wing of the White House.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
“So, another way to know that a function is doing more than “one thing” is if you can extract another function from it with a name that is not merely a restatement of its implementation”
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
“Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection, and that can complicate a design and/or cost you some performance. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed.”
― Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
― Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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