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

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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

The greatest single programming language ever designed

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.