Quotes from Scott Meyers

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

If you're not at all interested in performance, shouldn't you be in the Python room down the hall?)

First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions.

Other than when dealing with exception-unsafe legacy code (which we'll discuss later in this Item), offering no exception safety guarantee should be an option only if your crack team of requirements analysts has identified a need for your application to leak resources and run with corrupt data structures. As

A recent study shows that the average length of tenancy for a typical customer is 11 months, and 24 months for the average commercial tenant.

std::bind(setAlarm,             std::bind(std::plus<>(),                       std::bind(steady_clock::now),                       1h),             _1,             30s);

std::bind can express the same thing, but the construct is an example of job security through code obscurity: