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"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."

--Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell To Arms


"Beware of bugs in the above code. I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

--Donald Knuth


"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make a mess in the house."

--Lazuras Long/Robert Heinlein
"Time Enough for Love"


"A guy who won't do it isn't a bit better than one who can't."

--Lou Holtz


"...abuse leads to restrictions. Most rules and laws in our society derive from the fact that too many people did not have the self-discipline to refrain from taking advantage of the liberties this country offers."

--Lou Holtz


"What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expect generally happens."

--Benjamin Disraeli


"You seem...to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all Constitutional questions: a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one, which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. ...And their power (is) the more dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots."

--Thomas Jefferson


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

--Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)


"I've come to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really *would* prefer to piss off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with."

-- Linus Torvalds 2007-09-06


"You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington."

-- RADM Grace Murray Hopper


Stapp’s Law: "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle. “
-- Dr. Paul Stapp

"...you'll never convince me that reusable code isn't mostly a menace."

-- Donald Knuth, 2008-04-25


"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

-- Brian W. Kernighan


Murphy's Law:
"If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong.”
or
"If it can happen, it will happen."
-- Captain Ed Murphy Jr. --refined by Col./Dr. John Paul Stapp

"There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program."

-- Ed Yourdon


"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

-- Brian Wilson Kernighan