A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systemshave been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects,those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that arethe products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix,APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast themwith Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.

"Every time I think I know where it's at, they move it."

Neil Armstrong tripped.

If it pours before seven, it has rained by eleven.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are―bydefinition―not smart enough to debug it. ― Brian Kernighan

Help stamp out, remove and abolish redundancy.

Zimmerman's Law of Complaints: Nobody notices when things go right.

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done forthe first time. ― Alfred E. Wiggam