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

“Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.”

“Far too often, "software engineering" is neither engineering nor about software.”

“Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?”

“An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.”

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

“The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.”