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.

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.

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.

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

Don't make me come down there. - God

Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock.

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.