I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

All things we involve ourselves with should be of love. If it is not of love, stay away from it.

Anytime that you look up to the clear sky and see colors in it, you should be suspecting that you are looking at a flow of energy through the sky that is causing a gas to glow.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.