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

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

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.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

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

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage