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.

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

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?

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Truth is for the minority.

You can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

My material life is simple.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it