That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. (Larry Niven) The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. (Randall E. Stross) You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families. (Jim McCarthy) It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins. (Lou Gerstner)

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. (Brian Kernigan) I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes. (Dennie van Tassel) Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. (Rich Cook) There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup) A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place. (IEEE Grid newsmagazine)