The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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.

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.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

We dream because that's what life is.Anything else and it would be a nightmare.

Don't apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong.

Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of Provence: sunshine.

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.