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

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

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

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

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

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

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.