The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
When done well, software is invisible.
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.
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.
Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.