Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence.

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.

So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.