Brian Kernighan: “Without specification, there are no bugs–only surprises.”

David Wheeler: “Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people’s mistakes.”

Donald Knuth: “Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do”

Albert Einstein: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Tom Robbins: Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Venkat Subramaniam: The quality of code is inversely proportional to the effort it takes to understand it. link

Venkat Subramaniam: A good code is like a good joke. Writing comments is like explaining a joke. link