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

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

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

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!

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

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.