The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

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.

He was not of an age but for all time.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...