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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

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools

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