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

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

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.

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

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

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.