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Quotes from The C++ Programming Language — Bjarne Stroustrup

born 1950 Denmark

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

The C++ Programming Language (2013)

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

The C++ Programming Language (2013)

Maybe "just one little global variable" isn't too unmanageable, but that style leads to code that is useless except to its original programmer.

The C++ Programming Language (2013)

A program that has not been tested does not work.

The C++ Programming Language (2013)

"How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

The C++ Programming Language (2013)

Proof by analogy is fraud.

The C++ Programming Language (2013)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bjarne Stroustrup (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.