There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup) Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. (Edward V Berard) Any fool can use a computer. Many do. (Ted Nelson) If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. (Edsger W. Dijkstra) Any fool can use a computer. Many do. (Ted Nelson) If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. (Robert X. Cringely) Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck. (Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine describing the state of the art in OS security, 2003) It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. (E. W. Dijkstra) It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets. (Alan Cooper) Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding) There is no programming language–no matter how structured-that will prevent programmers from making bad programs. (Larry Flon) If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. (Gerald Weinberg)