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.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

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