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

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Source : "Bjarne Stroustrup: The Problem with Programming". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 01, 2007.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#Beautiful Quotes #Being Beautiful Quotes #Awful Quotes

“The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.”
“I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God...”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
“It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.”
“I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?”
“The whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common; we're just a crowd of people who don't really fit in anywhere attempting to convince one another that we do. I guess I'll put my sunglasses on and pretend, like everyone else, that I too belong here...”
“The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.”
“Whether youre trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, Ive always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether its as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.”

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