If you do anything useful it will haunt you forever after, and if you have a major success you get decades of hard manual labor — meaning you have to work on the manual.

— Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ Q&A Community Event with Bjarne Stroustrup (2014)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqQudbtuqo

From a 2014 C++ Q&A community event video, at 3m 20s.

Topics: software engineering