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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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

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