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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Legacy code often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up
— Bjarne Reuter
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautifulmany more. — Bjarne Stroustrup
His two podium candidates looked like two blokes who had just got up from the Christmas buffet.
— Bjarne Riis
Proof by analogy is fraud.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
A program that has not been tested does not work.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles
— Bjarne Stroustrup
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!
— Bjarne Stroustrup
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
— Bjarne Stroustrup
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
When done well, software is invisible.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful' - much more.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
