Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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

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

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.