Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

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

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

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

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

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.

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