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.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

When done well, software is invisible.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer