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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
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

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