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

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

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

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

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

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

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.