A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.

Life is something which can't be defined, but can only be celebrated.

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed