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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 W. Kernighan

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

— Edward V. Berard

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

— Alan Kay

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

— Seymour Cray

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

— Martin Golding

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do... The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

— Alan Kay

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

— Mitch Ratcliffe

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you're providing support for a lifetime.

— Michael Sinz