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.

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

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

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

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.

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.