Grady Booch on Design Patterns, OOP, and Coffee

Via Josh Price's tweet,

InformIT has an interview with Grady Booch by Larry O'Brien with a number of choice quotes:

"Most [UML] diagrams should be thrown away, but there are a few that should be preserved, and in all, one should only use a graphical notation for those things that cannot easily be reasoned about in code."

"... the code is the truth, but it is not the whole truth ..."

"The most important artifact any development team produces is raw, running, naked code. Everything else is secondary or tertiary. However, that is not to say that these other things are inconsequential."

"... while code is king, one must realize that it is also a servant, for it in the end must serve some constituency, deliver some measurable value."

"Design for design's sake is meaningless; code for code's sake may be fun but it is also meaningless."