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Features, quality, time: pick two.
XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Law 1: Every program can be optimised to be smaller. Law 2: There's always one more bug. Corollary: Every program can be reduced to a one-line bug.
Good programming is 99% sweat and 1% coffee.
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
And the users exclaimed with a laugh and a taunt: It's just what we asked for but not what we want.
Better train people and risk they leave — than do nothing and risk they stay.