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

You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

And no, I’m not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

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

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.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

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.

This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

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

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

I haven’t read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.