To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

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

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

When done well, software is invisible.

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.