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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.


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

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



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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.





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It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.



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I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.




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