Occupation: Computer Scientist Birth: May 17, 1940
Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet.
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it..
The best way to predict the future is to invent it..
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..
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language..
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it..
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex eve….
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..
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine..
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent 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..
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of progra….
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in sci….
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training..
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984..
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher..
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to thi….
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to….
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, th….