Quotes from Bjarne Stroustrup

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.