The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9.
-Erwin Dieterich

If you can get today’s work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can’t possibly get tomorrow’s work done tomorrow, then you lose.
--Martin Fowler

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
--Nathaniel S. Borenstein

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
--Emo Philips

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.
--Gene Spafford

There is an art to knowing where things should be checked and making sure that the program fails fast if you make a mistake. That kind of choosing is part of the art of simplification.
--Ward Cunningham

It is very hard to predict, especially the future.
--Niels Bohr (attributed to)

Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love.
--Pete Cordell

Never spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it.
--Zhuowei Zhang

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
--Donald Knuth

Being a young programmer today must be awful—you can choose 20 different programming languages, dozens of framework and operating systemsand you're paralyzed by choice. There was no paralysis of choice then. You just start doing it because the decision as to which language and things is just made—there's no thinking about what you should do, you just go and do it.
--Joe Armstrong

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.
--Kent Beck