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“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”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

“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when the policy is subject to instant modification based on the boss’s perception of how inaccurate and often-already-outdated information is reported by writers who don’t have the Administration’s best interests at heart in the first place.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.”
― John R. Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

“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.”
― Erich Gamma, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

“Without a shared design language and practices, collaboration is difficult.”
― Alla Kholmatova, Design Systems