Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand. — Putt's Law

Computer science isn't about computers any more than astronomy is about telescopes. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

It's not enough to be a great programmer; you have to find a great problem. — Charles Simonyi

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams, "The Dilbert Principle"

The idea is to fall and miss the ground. — Douglas Adams, "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. — Eric S. Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw

Basically, perfect development is impossible. Development can be fast, good, and cheap. Pick two. — Larry Wall

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. — Brian Foote & Joseph Yoder

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. — Putt's Law

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. — Steve Jobs

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. — Michael J. Fox

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Andre Gide

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. — Pablo Picasso

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I'd like to thank all the little people who helped make this possible, but I can't, because I did it all myself. — Herman Monster

We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall

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

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. — Sophia Loren

I would advise students to pay more attention to the fundamental ideas rather than the latest technology. The technology will be out-of-date before they graduate. Fundamental ideas never get out of date. — Dr. David Lorge Parnas

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. — Steve Jobs

We may not be able to conciously articulate why we like something, but I believe as a species we sense care in the same way we sense carelessness. — Jonathan Ive

The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. — Richard Moore