C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.