- "The first few lines must 'hook' the computer, and make it 'care' about the program" -- one of the many mystical koans of the random koan generator known to earthlings as DanTwedt
- "Test-first coding is not a testing technique" -- WardCunningham
- You can't algorithmise programming.
- By designing you learn to design. By making programs you learn to make programs.
- "Because I'm smarter than the average firewall, Booboo!"
- Have I spent enough time learning C++?
See also http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html