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Martin Fowler is a British software developer, author and international public speaker on software development, specialising in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.

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Martin Fowler
said · Nov 18, 2002
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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.

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

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Martin Fowler
said · 2012
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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

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Martin Fowler
said · 2007
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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 to avoid duplication.

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

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Born 1963 · age 62
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