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.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!

Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.