An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
Bjarne StroustrupThe first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.
Bjarne StroustrupTom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.
Bjarne StroustrupThe most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
Bjarne Stroustrup