The best practice is inspired by theory.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

The best practice is inspired by theory.

My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.