Bjarne Stroustrup

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"Small improvements made consistently lead to dramatic results."

"I am not interested in things that work by accident."

"The principle of continuity is more important than the principle of change."

"Memory is a place where you store things that you want to forget."

"Beware of programmers with screwdrivers."

"You cannot make a language that people cannot misuse."

"The strength of an idea lies not in its novelty but in its simplicity."

"Debugging is like detective work; you need patience and method."

"The most important skill is the ability to ask good questions."

"Programming in the large requires more than just knowing a language."

"Everything takes longer than you think, especially if you do it yourself."

"The best practice is the one that works for you."

"Innovation is not about adding features; it's about removing limitations."

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a narrow field."

"The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it."

"Elegance and power are not achieved by piling features upon features, but by organizing them."

"You cannot understand systems by understanding their parts."

"The design that is hard to understand is hard to modify safely."

"I don't think there is anything particularly to do with age except accumulate experiences."

"Good interfaces are invisible; you don't think about them, you just use them."

"The best code is code that doesn't have to be written."

"Motivation is not about money; it's about purpose."

"The value of a library is measured by how easy it is to misuse incorrectly."

"Time management is really life management."

"Complexity is the enemy of security."

"You can achieve more by helping others succeed than by trying to succeed alone."

"The most expensive mistake is to ask 'how hard can it be?'"

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

"Progress is made by people who are not satisfied with the way things are."