All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“On Freedom of Speech and the Press”
“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. September 1741. “Poor Richard, 1741,” Founders Online , National Archives, accessed 27 May 2020. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin , vol. 2, January 1, 1735, through December 31, 1744 , ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, pp. 292”
“Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress”
“Remember, that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me interest, or so much as I can make of it during that time. This amounts to a considerable sum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it.”
“Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities.”
“Aun cuando todos los expertos coincidan, pueden muy bien estar equivocados”
“Cuando le dices a alguien que la felicidad es algo muy simple, siempre te guardan resentimiento”
“It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. Interview with Dennis Bathory”
“Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company. Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch (1981), interpreted as a jab at Gary Kildall”
“To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination”
“The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. BusinessWeek, 26 November 1984”
“Windows 1.0 is borrowed from Macintosh 128K”
“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. OS/2 Programmers Guide , November 1987”
“There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. Interview with Electronics magazine”
“I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't”
“Challenges and Strategy”
“I laid out memory so the bottom 640 K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM , and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640 K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20”
“And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#.”
“Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup”
“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. PDF: Notes to the Reader, The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition (2000), p. 9”
“The Problem with Programming”
“with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful. As quoted in”
“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. Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (2009) by Federico Biancuzzi, p. 14”
“C++ Q&A Community Event with Bjarne Stroustrup”
“just one little global variable”
“Proof by analogy is fraud. p. 692”
“Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. p. 693”
“For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it? Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum”
“Je n'ai fait celle”
“Literally: I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter.”