The greatest single programming language ever designed

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.

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.

Whiteness of moonlight builds a house that is not there

Great faith must have great trials.

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.

I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.