In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)