Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day,
they just use it up. The real hero is already home because
she figured out a faster way to get things done.

- Jason Fried and David Hansson

Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

- Don Marquis

The best is the enemy of the good.

- Voltaire

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz

How does a project get to be a year late ?
… One day at a time.
– Excerpt from “The Mythical Month-Month”

Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so that you don’t have to answer so many questions about it.

—Larry Wall

Great programmers can do more than just get their code to work, they can also build a foundation to allow their efforts to be extended.

- Paul W. Homer

Source : Paul W. Homer blog

Writing programs in terms of the problem domain rather than in terms of lowlevel implementation details reduces your mental workload.

- Steve McConnell

I wonder how many great novelists have never read someone else’s work, how many great painters have never studied another’s brush strokes, how many skilled surgeons never learned by looking over a colleague’s shoulder…. And yet that’s what we expect programmers to do.

—Dave Thomas

Code as if whoever maintains your program is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

—Anonymous