In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

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.

I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done.

Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.

I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!