Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

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.

My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does play a big role.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

I know he would die if you died, Luce

I would have drunk a lot of Pinot Grigio if I'd lost after leading 5-2 in the third.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.