Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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• But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Person
  • Wrong
  • Go

• I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Never
  • Try

• They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Success
  • Me
  • Sad

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mother
  • Speed
  • Limit

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • People
  • Country
  • Year

• I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Know
  • End

• I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Maybe
  • Eight
  • Cuba

• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Nation

• I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Black

• Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Myself

• Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Risk

• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  

  Olof Palme
  • People
  • Society
  • Democracy

• You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Book
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.

  

  Dana Boente
  • America
  • Serious
  • Businesses

• Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantanamo more or less continuously, kept awake for much of that time by loud music being blasted when he was falling asleep, doused with water and subjected to cold temperatures, kept naked and forced to perform tricks as if he were a dog.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Water

• I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

  

  Michael Rooker
  • People
  • Passionate
  • Extremes

• I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Great
  • Home
  • Lost

• I wanted people to connect with the lyrics, even if it's in some weird way, because they're all personal.

  

  George Clarke
  • People
  • Lyrics
  • Connect

• Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

  

  Bjarne Stroustrup