When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
The choices you make in your 20s will shape your life for decades to come.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
The artist must be a shadow of the infinite.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.