Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

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.

Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain’t a man surely!

Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren’t genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

I never had a problem with a coach in my life, no matter what team I've been in on.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.