C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire. (Robert Firth)

C++ is an atrocity, the bletcherous scab of the computing world, responsible for more buffer overflows, more security breaches, more blue screens of death, more mysterious failures than any other computer language in the history of the planet Earth. (Eric Lee Green)

Arguing that Java is better than C++ is like arguing that grasshoppers taste better than tree bark. (Thant Tessman)

Being really good at C++ is like being really good at using rocks to sharpen sticks. (Thant Tessman)

If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you needed one? (Tom Cargill)

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

C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according to the speaker, as “a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.” (MIT Jargon Dictionary)

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. (Bertrand Meyer)

Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code. (J P Candusso)

I view the landslide of C use in education as something of a calamity. (Nicklaus Wirth)