We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
-- Larry Wall
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.-- Edward V Berard
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.-- Edsger Dijkstra
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.-- Rick Osborne
There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses-- Bjarne Stroustrup
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.-- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.-- Richard Pattis
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.-- P. J. Plauger
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.-- Martin Fowler
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.-- L. Peter Deutsch
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.-- Clark's law, J. Porter Clark
