The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.