"[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything …"

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."

"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."

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

"The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate a…"

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

"... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)"

"I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. T…"

"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no…"

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."