Bjarne Stroustrup - The C++ Programming Language (1985)

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

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"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.

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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

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

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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

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The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

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To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

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