Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.