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

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

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

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

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.

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.

There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.