An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
      Rich Julius

Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
      Gerry Brooks

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
      H.L. Mencken

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

The C programming language - a language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.

I've never met a human being who would want to read 17,000 pages of documentation, and if there was, I'd kill him to get him out of the gene pool.
      Joseph Costello, President of Cadence

Stamp out, eliminate, and abolish redundancy.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
      Richard P. Feynman

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
      Donald Knuth

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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.
      Dijkstra

Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
      Samuel Johnson

The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable pi can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
      FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers

Pascal - a programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.

Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
      Mark Twain

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
      Oscar Wilde

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
      Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of the C++ language

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
      Herbert Spenser

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
      E.W. Dijkstra

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe is trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
      Rick Cook

Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things.
      Doug Gwyn

True research is like fumbling in the dark for the right switches. Once you've turned the light on, everyone can see.

Americans want safety. They want their cheese dead.
      Clotaire Rapaille