An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

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.

Every person is an entrance to another world.

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.

A woman in love is helpless.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.