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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.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.