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

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

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

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.