It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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.
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.
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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.
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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