I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) providing roughly what C++ does.

— Bjarne Stroustrup, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (2009)

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=yB1WwURwBUQC&pg=PA14

From Federico Biancuzzi's 2009 book of interviews, Masterminds of Programming.

Topics: software design, simplicity