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.

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 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.

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

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.

If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.