If you do anything useful it will haunt you forever after, … - Bjarne Stroustrup

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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a computer scientist and creator of the C++ programming language.

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