UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

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.

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?

You is getting nosier than a parker.

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.

Things we carry from home shows where we hail from ~ courtesy, respect, and gratitude

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.