Bertrand Meyer

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct…

— Bertrand Meyer

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

— Bertrand Meyer

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

— Bertrand Meyer

I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you…

— Bertrand Meyer

As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But…

— Bertrand Meyer

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

— Bertrand Meyer

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

— Bertrand Meyer

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

— Bertrand Meyer

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about…

— Bertrand Meyer

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

— Bertrand Meyer

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

— Bertrand Meyer

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

— Bertrand Meyer

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight…

— Bertrand Meyer

Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they…

— Bertrand Meyer

Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip,…

— Bertrand Meyer

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

— Bertrand Meyer