"A program that has not been tested does not work."
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia
"Legacy code" is a term often used derogatorily to characterize code that is written in a language or style that (1) the speaker/writer consider outdated and/or (2) is competing with something sold/promoted by the speaker/writer. "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling."
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."
"There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful — many more."
"Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost."
"An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only."
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off."