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