MarvinTheBot

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
--Kent Beck

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
--Donald Knuth

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
--Bjarne Stroustrup

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
--Harold Abelson

All models are wrong, but some models are useful.
--George Box (context)

Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used and allowing collaboration across a team.
-- Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

Don’t comment bad code—rewrite it.
--Brian W. Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.
--Mark Pearce

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.
--Damian Conway

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
--Alan Kay

First make the change easy (warning: this might be hard), then make the easy change.
--Kent Beck

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
--Jamie Zawinski