"I haven’t listened to the interview so I honestly don’t know if the quote is taken out of context or not"

WTF? -1 for not trying.

There's a panel discussion with:

    Erik Meijer (misc, head of Cloud Programmability Team at Microsoft)
    Gilad Bracha (Dart)
    Martin Odersky (most recently Scala)
    Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# etc)
    Peter Alvaro (researcher e.g. datalog)

And some ungooglable twerp doesn't actually listen to it?

Argument from authority seems spot-on when you're replying to something they said.

Make that -2