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

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

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

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

I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call 'real money,' I'd be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

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.