Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.