It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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.
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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.
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.
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.
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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