Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup
"I wanted to write code that was as close to the hardware as possible while remaining elegant."
More from Bjarne Stroustrup
"The C++ programming language is a general-purpose programming language with a bias towards systems programming that is a better C, supports data abstraction, object-oriented programming, and generic programming."
"Programming is understanding."
"I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
"The most important principle for the good programmer is to refuse to write code that is difficult to understand."