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.

Anders Hejlsberg

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

Anders Hejlsberg

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

Anders Hejlsberg

#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.

Anders Hejlsberg

#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.

Anders Hejlsberg

#6. Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

Craig Kilborn

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

Anders Hejlsberg

#8. You don't look well," he pronounced.
"Indigestion," I replied.
"From what?"
"Reality."
"Join the queue.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

Michael Scheuer

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

Anders Hejlsberg

#11. Happiness comes from within

Anders Hejlsberg

#12. No mountain of doom,
Just foothills of Ferninand.
Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

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

Anders Hejlsberg

#14. Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. You've been busy matchmaking everyone in this city ... and beyond." Gerri winked. "Careful, before I set my sights on you.

Milly Taiden

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

Anders Hejlsberg