Quotes from Bertrand Meyer

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear.

To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.

The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.