Bjarne Stroustrup

"One of the things I really like about programming languages is that it's the perfect excuse to stick your nose into any field. So if you're interested in high energy physics and the structure of the u…"

"I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems."

"How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible."

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

"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't."

"There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more."

"The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating …"

"If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem."