The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

To change yourself, never forget to challenge yourself.

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.