Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

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

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.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

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.