The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

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.

Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.