"If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem."

"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't."

"I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life…"

"The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very c…"

"There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful — man…"

"[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture…"

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

"I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) prov…"

"One of the things I really like about programming languages is that it's the perfect excuse to stick your nose into a…"

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off."