Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

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.

{...} It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.

Many times the wrong train took me to the right place.

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

I just try not to judge. Dont judge me, and I wont judge you.