“Technology is anything invented after you were born.”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”

“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”

“Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.”