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I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat

I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.

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