Anders Hejlsberg Quotations

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

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

I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.

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

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

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 absolutely think it will, because it makes .Net a more appealing proposition.

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

Happiness comes from within

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.

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

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.

We know that our underlying technology was not rich enough, ... It was not a particularly friendly world to program in.

With a lot of programs today, you're not only saying what you want the program to do, you are saying in painful detail how you want it done. The way we get to take advantage of all of the progress in CPUs and memory is offloading some of that 'how to' to the infrastructure.

I value simplicity over everything. I always look for simplicity. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.

I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity.

The VB6 petition is the dilemma you end up in when you have a large installed base you're trying to move. There's no question .Net is a very productive system. The only way you can stay 100 percent backward-compatible is not to change your technology base.

Not only does this scenario require familiarity with several programming languages, but it also requires a mastery of the application programming interfaces that bridge the different domains, such as ADO.NET or Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC).

The .NET framework was built really to support XML Web services.

If you don't handle them, we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

You can see it in the products I've built over the years?they strive to be simple. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.

You can query pretty much anything. LINQ works with any collection you have in the .Net Framework today. It's a single programming model for data where the things you know in this domain just magically apply for another domain.

The dream is to have a single programming model,