The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

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.

Never fear what people will say... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quiet a long period now! You too can fly!

Enough of this guilt, " he told her, his voice reduced to a cracked whisper. "What's done is done.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.