People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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.

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

Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can create a new self by emptying your mind and filling it with new thoughts, ideas, and visions.

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I’m afraid.

I love competition. I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.