Quality is the ally of schedule and cost, not their adversary. If we have to sacrifice quality to meet schedule, it's because we are doing the job wrong from the very beginning.
--James A. Ward

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
--John Ruskin

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.
--Francis Glassborow

Software and cathedrals are much the same. First we build them, then we pray.
--Sam Redwine

I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
--Tony Hoare

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
--Donald E. Knuth

Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame, frequently with the same result.
--Neal Ford

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.
--Alan Turing

Don't be (too) clever. My point was to discourage overly clever code because 'clever code' is hard to write, easy to get wrong, harder to maintain, and often no faster than simpler alternatives because it can be hard to optimize.
--Bjarne Stroustrup

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.
--Alan Cooper

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.
--Richard Hamming

The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.
--Mario Fusco