I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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.

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.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home.

It is good to pray even if you do not believe in God.

Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’‘If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.