I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

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.

Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account

An alternative to love is not hate but patience.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.

Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.