I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

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

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

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

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.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

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