Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

C++ is a pile of crap.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in the summertime.

Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

I think the best developers can learn any language; if they are a good developer, they can learn whatever. But the raw talent, the ability to learn it and do it and demonstrate the ability is helpful.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

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

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.