Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

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.

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.

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

We are going to have that thing everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...Here's to endless stargazing.

The main root of every massive success is deeply rooted in one's mental imagination.

For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.

I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend!

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.