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.

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.

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 gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

Sometimes you don't need words to feel better

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.