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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

Bjarne Stroustrup

“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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.
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Details Find Head Need
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty 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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software

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