Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

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

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.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.