A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

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.

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

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.