Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get bac… - Erik Naggum

The secret to feeling great about yourself is not to be found in searching for people who are less than you and then show yourself superior to them, but in searching for people who are more than you and then show yourself worthy of their company.

Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

… so as long as you do The Right Thing and forget how you would do it in C, you should be able to get a good grip on this.