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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

My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
[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.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software

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