"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers…"

"C treats you like a consenting adult. Pascal treats you like a naughty child. Ada treats you like a criminal."

"For none of the evidence we have so far can inspire confidence that this language has avoided any of the problems tha…"

"If you're masochistic enough to program in Ada, we're not going to stop you."

"It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style."

"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful…"

"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success."

"In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to al…"

"[C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language."

"A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors."