Bjarne Stroustrup

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'