The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

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.

When your inner light shines your outer world glows.

Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.

It is easier to stand in front of a bullet than it is to stand up to the world.

Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

I got a lot of positive people around me.

The White House has now put together a website for kids. It's a website to teach kids how to manage a budget responsibly. The website is called ' Irony.gov. '

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

As a professional athlete, I have an incredible platform to inspire, impact, and deeply affect another human being. It sets my soul on fire.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.