UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.
-Dennis Ritchie
Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.
-Ralph Johnson
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
-Fred Brooks
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it. It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
-Steve McConnell Code Complete
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
-Edsger Dijkstra
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic. You cannot have both at the same time.
-Bertrand Meyer
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.
-Alan J. Perlis
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
-Bill Gates
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 10% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
-Tom Cargill
Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs. The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.
-Anonymous
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why it works. Programmers combine Theory and Practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
-Anonymous
The Six Phases of a Project:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the Innocent
6. Praise for non-participants
-Anonymous