"In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." --Blair P. Houghton

"Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined." --Kreitzberg and Shneiderman

"You can't have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families." --Jim McCarthy

"Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow." --Unknown

"XP is the answer to the question, 'How little can we do and still build great software?'" --Unknown

"You'll get no argument from me on the fundamental value of unit testing. Even the most trivially basic unit test, as shown in the code sample above, is a huge step up from the testing most developers perform-- which is to say, most developers don't test at all! They key in a few values at random and click a few buttons. If they don't get any unhandled exceptions, that code is ready for QA!" --Jeff Atwood

"If the code is poor quality, have it fixed, don't paper over the problem." --Unknown

"The software isn't finished until the last user is dead." --Unknown

"Manual testing is immoral. Not only is it high stress, tedious, and error prone; it's just wrong to turn humans into machines." --Uncle Bob

"The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it." --Unknown

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." --Unknown

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten." --Unknown

Real Programmer Week: "Real Programmers don't need comments—the code is obvious." --Unknown

Real Programmer Week: "Real Programmers don't write specs—users should consider themselves lucky to get any programs at all, and take what they get." --Unknown

Real Programmer Week: "Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If they are around at 9 AM, it's because they were up all night." --Unknown

Real Programmer Week: "Real Programmers can write five page long DO loops without getting confused." --Unknown

McConnell week: "A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work." --Steve McConnell

McConnell Week: "In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together." --Steve McConnell

McConnell Week: "It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive." --Steve McConnell

McConnell Week: "Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?' Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer." --Steve McConnell