It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.


Bjarne Stroustrup

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
First you have to learn the rules of the game, then you have to know the game better than anyone els...
APURVA GAGLANI
In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
I'm the type of girl who smiles a lot. I'm the type of girl who is kind to everyone. I'm the type of...
NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN
Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
when you obey the rules, the rules obey you
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON
Anything man can make, man can destroy.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT
Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN
Boating is a wonderful and relaxing pastime, however it is not without its hazards.
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER
Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN
Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD
God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER
Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN
Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL
Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN
Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER
Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN
Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN
If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN
Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN
When we just started we were concentrated on impressive graphics with our products. Currently, we ar...
DAVID BRAUN
I do not serve and never will serve the human body. I serve only the human soul - the soul that is t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY
We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN
This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN
He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly...
RICK RIORDAN
Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN
Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?”
Percy wanted to step ...
RICK RIORDAN
Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN
I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in...
RICK RIORDAN
To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose...
BRYANT MCGILL
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
To be or not to be that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage chang...
LEON C. MEGGINSON
To question reason is to trust it.
MITCH STOKES
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.
RICK RIORDAN
Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN
Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” ...
RICK RIORDAN
The kindness that we receive from others in life, is also the kindness that we will want to give. Th...
C. JOYBELL C.
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN
We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE
Each day before the end of eve
she sought her lover, nor would him leave,
until the stars ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.
RICK RIORDAN
We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we...
MISHI MCCOY
Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter.
STEVEN CUOCO
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness...
CHERYL R COWTAN
While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance....
GENA SHOWALTER
Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS
A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS
The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS

More Bjarne Stroustrup

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfa...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true....
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away y...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
I also hope that C++ implementation vendors will spend a slightly larger fraction of their budgets o...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become se...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces,...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
Consequently, a general-purpose programming language should support a variety of ways of thinking an...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away y...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
There's an old story about the person who wished his computer was as easy to use as his telephone. T...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the e...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is pa...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true bec...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
Proof by analogy is fraud.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP
It's certain that the Alps are going to be the decider.
BJARNE RIIS
He has a very nice position on the bike, which makes him go very fast. I wouldn't say it's the best ...
BJARNE RIIS
Jakob is in his best shape ever and rode a really amazing world championships. It was a shame the br...
BJARNE RIIS
To have CSC here is very important because we have an American sponsor, ... This team has a certain ...
BJARNE RIIS
I think Linus would've liked to stay on with the team next year, but I don't feel it would be feasib...
BJARNE RIIS
First of all, he's able to ride faster than most of the others.
BJARNE RIIS
We are very happy to have Marcus on our team for next season. He is a really good rider, who has the...
BJARNE RIIS
He won't be riding in the spring classics.
BJARNE RIIS
How can it be that Denmark has only three riders in the road race and Britain has six?
BJARNE RIIS
Since he joined us his career has blossomed like I've never seen before,
BJARNE RIIS
Ivan, ... is a professional, always.
BJARNE RIIS
Ivan Basso has also signed for three more years and will be our team leader in future editions of th...
BJARNE RIIS
We're very close to having all contracts finalized, and it's a pleasure to be so far ahead in the pl...
BJARNE RIIS
We want him to stay and he wants to stay with us, but from my point of view, he's asking for too muc...
BJARNE RIIS
This team's fate probably depends a lot on me. But is it so terribly wrong that they become extras i...
BJARNE RIIS
I think we'll ride fast tomorrow. It's our goal to win this [team] time trial.
BJARNE RIIS
It hasn't been an easy decision for Thomas, but I respect it because I know it's well thought throug...
BJARNE RIIS
I strongly believe that we have the correct balance to make a serious impact on this year's race. We...
BJARNE RIIS
It was a shame Carlos didn't make it when Heras attacked,
BJARNE RIIS
Primarily he is a reinforcement to our classics team, but he is a rider, who has the ability to make...
BJARNE RIIS
He's an all-round rider, who can achieve results throughout the enitre season and at the same time h...
BJARNE RIIS