"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." - B.W.Kernighan
"You're bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything." - D.Knuth
"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." - Wirth's law
"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true! I no longer know how to use my telephone." - B.Stroustrup
"No code is faster than no code" - Merb motto
"OOP is to writing a program, what going through airport security is to flying." - R.Mansfield
"Give a man a program and you frustrate them for a day; teach a man how to program and you frustrate them for a lifetime" - D.Leinweber
"The best thing about boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." - Anonymous
"The best method for accelerating a computer is the one that boosts it by 9.82 m/s^2" - Anonymous
"There are two ways to write error-free programs and only the third one works" - A.J.Perlis
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." - D.Linder
"Deleted code is debugged code" - J.Sickel
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - M.Golding
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - E.V.Berard
"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." - E.Dijkstra
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late." - S.Cray
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions!" Now they have two problems." - J.Zawinski
"Linux is only free if your time has no value." - J.Zawinski
"There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t." - Anonymous
"Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet." - M.A.Jackson
"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." - J.Johnson
"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration." - S.Kelly-Bootle
"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." - T.Cargill
"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves." - A.Kay
"Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file." - L.Srygley
"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." - Eagleson's law
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off." - B.Stroustrup
"In a world without walls, who needs Windows?" - L.Torvalds
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery