I maintain interesting quotes on software on my blog, they are displayed randomly in the sidebar. Here are some of them:
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian Kernighan
- Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Abelson and Sussman
- Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. - Wernher von Braun
- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook
- I've never met a human being who would want to read 17,000 pages of documentation, and if there was, I'd kill him to get him out of the gene pool. - Joseph Costello
- When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - R Buckminster Fuller
- Act in haste and repent at leisure; Code too soon and debug forever. - Raymond Kennington
- Complexity is a sign of technical immaturity. Simplicity of use is the real sign of a well design product whether it is an ATM or a Patriot missile. - Daniel T. Link
- I've seen so many organizations that have gotten burned because they didn't spend the time to really figure out what they wanted. - Gerry McGovern
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison
I will keep adding to this, so do revisit.
changed September 18, 2007