Software obeys the law of gaseous expansion - it continues to grow until memory is completely filled.
Larry Gleason

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Chi non è programmatore alzi la mano, che gliela spiego
[tags]buon programmatore[/tags]

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend… if you have one.”
George Bernard Shaw a Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one.”
Winston [...]

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
C.A.R. Hoare