I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

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

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

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

When done well, software is invisible.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

Power's not a chalice. It's a hammer. And it only does one thing. Power smashes. The subtext of all power is extortion. It's always the threat of force, of imprisonment, the threat of death. Always.

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

I think if God came down and gave us all His version of Empathy then all the world’s problems would surely become a thing of the past.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

Everything I did, I did for mankind.