"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise." - Grace Hopper

"Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer." - Filipe Fortes

“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.” - Seymour Cray

"Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime." - David Leinweber

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." - John Johnson

“A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.”– Terry Baker

“Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” – Cory House

"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." - Christopher Thompson

"You can have the project: Done On Time. Done On Budget. Done Properly - Pick two." - Unknown

"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler

"Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime." - David Leinweber

“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” - Edward V. Berard

"Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested." - Leah Culver

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." - John Johnson

Managers and leads, one of your high priority goals is to keep your people out of meetings.

"Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." - Alan Eagleson

“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.” - Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering

"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks

"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad." - Cory House