You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
Eric S. RaymondThe central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management
Eric S. RaymondRushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time
Eric S. Raymond