def programming:

Later equals never.

-- Le Blanc's law

This is essentially what a program was, a love letter from the programmer to the hardware, full of the intimate details known only to partners in an affair.

-- Michael Marcotty

The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application.

-- Justin Meyer

JavaScript is the only language that I’m aware of that people feel they don’t need to learn before they start using it.

-- Douglas Crockford

In the end, regardless of where you are on the development hierarchy, keep coding. It’s where you’re most valuable.

-- The Developer's Code

We build systems like the Wright brothers built airplanes — build the whole thing, push it off the cliff, let it crash, and start over again.

-- Nato Software Engineering Conference '68

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

-- Kent Beck

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as "users".

-- Edward Tufte

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

-- Ted Nelson

Hardware: the parts of a computer system that can be kicked.

-- Jeff Pesis