Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

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

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.

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