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

"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't."

"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."

"I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life…"

"There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful — man…"

"[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture…"

"Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman."

"I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) prov…"

"One of the things I really like about programming languages is that it's the perfect excuse to stick your nose into a…"

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