Quote #9

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. Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.

More from Bjarne Stroustrup

  1. There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
  2. People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.
  3. Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
  4. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
  5. An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
  6. If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
  7. 'How to test?' is a question that connot be answered in general. 'When to test?' however, does have a general answer: as early and as often…
  8. 'There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more'.

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