Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

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 have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

I am always excited for gaps of time where I can actually hang out with my friends.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?