Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.….

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited..

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term..

Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar..

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning..

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, w….

[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can s….

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories..

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality..

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..

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of v….

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied..

The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There'….

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing..

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 ….

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet.

The greatest single programming language ever designed.

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. Whe….

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing ou….

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently..

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware..