The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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.

You should really smile more Miss.” “Smiling Is overrated.” my voice as sharp as a knife, my voice deadpanned, as I sulked at the wall.

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.

We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and Coke.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.