"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming." - Kernigan

"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers." - Niven, Larry, and Jerry Pournelle in 'Oath of Fealty'

"BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing." - Papert, Seymour

"Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." - Sinz, Michael [Commodore-Amiga Inc.]

"Real Programmers never work from 9 to 5. If any real programmer is around at 9 a.m., it's because they were up all night." - Some Computer Geek

"The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea." - Unknown

"If builders built buildings they way computer programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed all civilization." - Weinberg's Law