“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.”

[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.

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.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

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

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.

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

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

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally.

I don’t know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn’t as efficient.

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Blockchain technology isn’t just a more efficient way to settle securities.