Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

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

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.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

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

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.