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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple 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
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles

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