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Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

In short, software is eating the world.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.