Bono
BONO
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
-
-
-
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP -
-
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP -
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
BJARNE STROUSTRUP -
-
-
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP -
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP -
-
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP -
-
-
-
![Bjarne Stroustrup Quote - [Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/corporate-programming-is-often-done-to-the-point-w.jpg)