If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

A good messenger expects to get shot.