That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
--Larry Niven
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
--Martin Fowler
Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning.
--Isaac Traxler
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively
--Dalai Lama XIV
Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.
--Joshua Bloch
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
--Alan Kay
Think twice, code once.
--Waseem Latif
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
--Theodore H. White
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
--Edward V. Berard
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware
--Alan Kay
If the steps become to big, they become walls...
--Herb Sutter
The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines.
--Steve McConnell
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
--John Ciardi
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
--Rick Cook
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
--Alan Kay
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points
--Alan Kay
Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.
--Paul Graham
Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.
--Louis Srygley
Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship.
--David Thomas
There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.
--Jon Erickson
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