How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

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.

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.

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.

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today. The way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

You have to be born with enough brainpower.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

I never think, Oh, I'm so beautiful. To me, feeling happy is more important.

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.

I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.