Bjarne Stroustrup citations

Bjarne Stroustrup , né le 30 décembre 1950 à Aarhus, est un informaticien, écrivain et professeur de sciences informatiques danois. Il est connu pour être l'auteur du langage de programmation C++, l'un des plus utilisés dans le monde. Wikipedia  

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“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
Source: The C++ Programming Language

“C++ protects against accident, not against fraud.”

Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language

The C++ Programming Language

“I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) providing roughly what C++ does.”

[Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages, https://books.google.com/books?id=yB1WwURwBUQC&pg=PA14, 21 March 2009, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 978-0-596-55550-4, 14]

“Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman.”

in C++ 0x - An Overview at University of Waterloo Computer Science Club http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/C++0x%20-%20An%20Overview.html

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

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

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

Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 713]

“A program that has not been tested does not work.”

Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 712]

“Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.”

Bjarne Stroustrup livre The Design and Evolution of C++

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The Design and Evolution of C++, 207]. A later clarification adds, "And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#." Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“Far too often, "software engineering" is neither engineering nor about software.”

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2011-04-11 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

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

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.”

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

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

Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 693]

“"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.”

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: What is "legacy code"?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#legacy,

“There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.”

The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup), MIT Technology Review, November 28, 2006, Jason Pontin, 2007-11-15 http://technologyreview.com/Infotech/17831/page3/,

“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.”

Bjarne Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language (Third Edition and Special Edition) Notes to the Reader page 9, 2012-04-28, http://web.archive.org/web/20091128074415/http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_notes.pdf#page=7, 2009-11-28 http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_notes.pdf#page=7,

“Keep simple things simple.”

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“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.”

On his homepage http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that, Bjarne Stroustrup states that he did say the above sentence, but also adds "I very much doubt that the sentiment is original." Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“Proof by analogy is fraud.”

Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 692]

“I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.”

Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, 2011-02-07 http://www.eptacom.net/pubblicazioni/pub_eng/stroustr.html,

“The best is the enemy of the good.”

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“Dream no little dreams.”

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