First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

When done well, software is invisible.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

God gives abilities, talents and gifts to help you get established in your territory.

Standing up for oneself is not always easy but it is often the only way to walk our true life path. The beaten path only gets you where most people go. Be original and explore new roads.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean.

Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.