“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.”

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”

“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.”

“Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.”

“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”

“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.”

“Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.”

“I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.”