It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good.
--Hary Chapin
There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something.
--Thomas Edison
Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
--unknown
The personal computer isn't "personal" because it's small and portable and yours to own. It's "personal" because you pour yourself into it - your thoughts, your programming.
--Audrey Watters
The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why.
--perldoc perl
How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules?
--Anonymous
Think twice, code once.
--Waseem Latif
Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.
--Chris Pine
If the steps become to big, they become walls...
--Herb Sutter
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
--Unix Fortune
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
--Alan Kay
So if an algorithm is an idealized recipe, a program is the detailed set of instructions for a cooking robot preparing a month of meals for an army while under enemy attack
--Kernighan Brian
But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti.
--Andrew Hunt
Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning.
--Isaac Traxler