83 Quotes by Bjarne Stroustrup

Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

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.

I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

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!

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles