After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

When done well, software is invisible.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

Christian is a term used to describe a broad range of those who believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I think of myself at an Evangelical Christian and regularly attend a Pentecostal church.

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.