Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to 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.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory

you are as faras the moonand as closeas it feelswhen I look upon it.

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me...

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.