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

"No amount of elegant programming or technology will solve a problem if it is improperly specified or understood to begin with." -Milt Bryce

"There is nothing more unproductive than to build something efficiently that should not have been built at all." -Milt Bryce