"The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people."

"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."

"We're all going to be replaced by a computer. You'll be sitting around and the computer will say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, you're not needed today.'"

"I'm very much interested in people doing things, not just talking about them."

"I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future."