Love is the foundation of all obedience.
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.
Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine. . . ) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.
Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.
The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.
Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.