Anders Hejlsberg Quotes & Sayings

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

Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data. — Anders Hejlsberg

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

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

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

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

Happiness comes from within — Anders Hejlsberg

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

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

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