“Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.”

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.

This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!

When done well, software is invisible.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.

On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it ‘works’ and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort.

World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.