Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

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 artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

I've got a cure for mental health issue. Spank your children more.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.