Stroustrup Quotes: top 34 famous quotes about Stroustrup

Stroustrup Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Stroustrup quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either. — 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

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining. — Bjarne Stroustrup

A program that has not been tested does not work. — 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

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. — Bjarne Stroustrup

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Proof by analogy is fraud. — Bjarne Stroustrup

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful
many more. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good. — Bjarne Stroustrup

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — 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

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

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

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman. — Bjarne Stroustrup