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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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!
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Google Quality Thinking
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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.
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Effort Java May
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
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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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
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

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