“It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.”

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

“If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.”

“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.”

“C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.”

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

“Proof by analogy is fraud.”