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I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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.
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Stories Technology Wish
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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.
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Clue Helping Ideas
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.
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Important Language Simple Use
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful

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