“He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.”
-- George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.  Code for readability."
-- John F. Woods, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.c++/rYCO5yn4lXw/oITtSkZOtoUJ 

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one."
-- Voltaire, Letter to Prince Frederick William of Prussia (28 November 1770)

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."
-- Alexandre Dumas

"The more you learn, the more you earn."
-- Warren Buffet

"Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated."
-- Zyzz

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection."
-- David Wheeler

"I'm 56 years old. I can't blame anybody for anything I do."
-- Max Cherry