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.

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.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

It wasn't right. Evil should look evil. It should reek like rotten flesh, not smell like pine cleaner and fabric softener

The place was silent and - aware.

Books are left untouched. Fanaticism became our trait.. Now more than ever we let others feed our minds and we became the zombie society walking around without purpose, without care, without vision.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.