A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.