Anders Hejlsberg

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.

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

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 didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.