To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

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.

Friendless is most loneliness in the world

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.

Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.

We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.