Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?

What separates a weak dreamer and a great dreamer is who is wishing and waiting or who is willing and working.

Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me!

the gravity of wound to fist

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.