The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

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.

I'm on the edge of a precipice.

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!

It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.