Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
--Keith Bostic
...I’m not saying simple code takes less time to write. You’d think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn’t an accretion of code, it’s a distillation of it.
--Robert Nystrom
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
--Alan Perlis
Think twice, code once.
--Waseem Latif
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live
--John Woods
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
--Alan Kay
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively
--Dalai Lama XIV
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
--Martin Fowler