C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?

As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.

Working to become excellent at what you want, raises your confidence, charisma and develops courage. As you work to become top notch, it also gives you a great reputation at what you do.

Getting wasted is never a waste of time.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.