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

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.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

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

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.