Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

All men are liable to error; and most men, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

To err is human, to persist is diabolical.

It is always better to be inefficient and correct than to be incorrect and efficient.

Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don't take risk, you are boring.

I have the ability to get code done, but I'm impatient, and it's scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with 'Minecraft,' as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I'd like to actually become a good programmer.

No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.

I took Pascal, and I was terrible. And then, when I went to NYU, I minored in computer science. I just couldn't code. I just didn't have the patience for it.

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

To be human is to err, isn't it?

Everybody makes mistakes. I'm definitely not perfect.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

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

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.