Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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.

Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.

I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?

Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.