A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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.

I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.

When you tell your story, and I listen, we both gain.

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

My mom made me think I was gorgeous. When I was younger she was like, 'Look at you! You're an angel. You sparkle!' And I was like, 'I do!' You believe your parents.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.