Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

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.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

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

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive.

Once time is lost it can never be regained

Love is not blind. Infatuation is blind. Love is all-seeing and still accepting.

Strength is gained in the range it is trained.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.