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

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

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

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.

Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem

Time is the most valuable commodity we have to offer the world. Don't be afraid to share.

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

You are skilled. I exhort you.

The Vikings need to go down there and hit that town like Katrina.

A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

Every area had their own superstar. The TV was not national, it was localized. So you could develop in one place, or the next place and be a better star, go to the next place and be a superstar.

Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).

It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.