Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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.

Right. Because if you have trouble putting ketchup and mustard on a hot dog, you should totally move on to saving lives.

All roads out of hell lead home.

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.

The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

Be smart, but never show it.

What's possible today isn't bound by what was possible yesterday, and is never a measure of what's possible tomorrow.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.