Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

If you do anything useful it will haunt you forever after, and if you have a major success you get decades of hard manual labor — meaning you have to work on the manual.

Maybe "just one little global variable" isn't too unmanageable, but that style leads to code that is useless except to its original programmer.

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

I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) providing roughly what C++ does.