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.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

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.