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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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