Scott Meyers Quotes

#1. Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

Scott Meyers

#2. Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

Scott Meyers

#3. The results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces.

Scott Meyers

#4. A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.

Scott Meyers

#5. (If you're not at all interested in performance, shouldn't you be in the Python room down the hall?)

Scott Meyers

#6. Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.

Scott Meyers

#7. That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions.

Scott Meyers

#8. First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

Scott Meyers