Anders Hejlsberg Quotes

#1. Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

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#2. It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

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#3. I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

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#4. My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

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#7. Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.

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#8. Happiness comes from within

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#9. If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

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#10. I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

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