83 Quotes by Bjarne Stroustrup

I encourage people to consider the two languages according to their design criteria and not just in the context of commercial rivalries.

Tool vendors have made a good start, but have much work to do in tools that depend on compilers and other source code analyzers.

Consequently, a general-purpose programming language should support a variety of ways of thinking and a variety of programming styles.

The most novel and interesting part of the standard library is the general and extensible framework for containers and algorithms.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer was as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

In the short term, say 10 years, many such standards will be industry standards rather than formal ISO or IEEE standards, but it is essential for the software industry's health that key interfaces be well-specified and publicly available.

If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer.

Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform.