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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
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
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
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
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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

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