Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do 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.

Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life.

I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.

I'm not blockbuster boy.

One time, I brought Prince to the set. He's a friend of mine, and he asked to come. Everyone wanted to meet him, but he's a little shy.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

You can't open your presents 'til you write your thank-you letters.