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. Votes: 18
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. Votes: 8
It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created. Votes: 4
I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot. Votes: 4
Happiness comes from within Votes: 3
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 0
If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system. Votes: 0
Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak. Votes: 0