More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

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.

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

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

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.

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.

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.