Chris Heilmann

Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet.

Ryan Campbell

Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom—you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.

Anonymous

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

Bjarne Stroustrup

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Fred Brooks

Nine people can’t make a baby in a month.

Jamie Zawinski

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

Brian W. Kernighan

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.

Gerald Weinberg

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along wound destroy civilization.

Ken Thompson

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.