NSHipster Quotes

“The Principle of Least Surprise" describes a general approach to software that celebrates sanity over cleverness: clear intent, reasonable defaults, and providing a sense of control to the developer.”
― Mattt Thompson, NSHipster: Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective C

“There are only 2 hard things in programming: naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one-errors.”
― Mattt Thompson, NSHipster: Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective C

“NSPredicate is truly one of the jewels of Cocoa. Other languages would be lucky to have something with half of its capabilities in a third-party framework—let alone the standard library.”
― Mattt Thompson, NSHipster: Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective C

“Ask anyone who's been around the NSBlock a few times: Key-Value Observing has the worst API in all of Cocoa.”
― Mattt Thompson, NSHipster: Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective C