When done well, software is invisible.

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.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

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

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

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