Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Anders Hejlsberg

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Danish businessman Anders Hejlsberg.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Anders Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who co-designed several programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi. He currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C# and core developer on TypeScript.

Danish - Businessman | Born: 1960

Source: Wikipedia

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.

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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.

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

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

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Happiness comes from within

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

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

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