Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Meyers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Scott Meyers.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Scott Douglas Meyers is an American author and software consultant, specializing in the C++ computer programming language. He is known for his Effective C++ book series. During his career, he was a frequent speaker at conferences and trade shows.

American - Author | Born: April 9, 1959

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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

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

Scott Meyers

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

... 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

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

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Meyers

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