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Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Hindsight is an exact science.
Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
People who preach software design as a disciplined activity spend considerable energy making us all feel guilty. We can never be structured enough or object-oriented enough to achieve nirvana in this lifetime. We all truck around a kind of original sin from having learned Basic at an impressionable age. But my bet is that most of us are better designers than the purists will ever acknowledge.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
Kernighan and Ritchie
Proverb - Found in a Linux fortunes file.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
