If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

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.

If you want to help anybody, go help people in need.

Solitude helps you to see life the way it is.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

I dont want a broken heart because Ill lose the pieces.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Libraries...house our dreams.