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.

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.

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

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

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

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