I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

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

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

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

I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call 'real money,' I'd be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.

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.