I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

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

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

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

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

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

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.