MarvinTheBot

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
--DeMarco and Lister

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
--Tony Hoare

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
--Seymour Cray

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
--Niklaus Wirth

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.
--Friedrich L. Bauer

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
--Edsger Dijkstra

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.
--John Robbins

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
--Bram Cohen

Architecture is the tension between coupling and cohesion.
--Neal Ford

Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.
--Cory House

There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary hack.
--Kyle Simpson

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
--Phil Karlton