Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

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

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

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

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

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.