Scott Meyers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.
-- Scott Meyers

#Real #Real Life #Trouble
A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.
-- Scott Meyers

#Differences #Way #Fundamentals
... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces.
-- Scott Meyers

#Mean #Blow #Important
Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.
-- Scott Meyers

#Writing #Years #Iron
Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.
-- Scott Meyers

#Principles #Schedules #Development

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.
The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.
Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

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