Quotable Quotes on Software

A friend of mine forwarded these wonderful quotable quotes on Software.

• UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity. --Dennis Ritchie
• Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable. --Ralph Johnson
• Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. --Fred Brooks
• It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free. -- Steve McConnell Code Complete
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell
• If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. --Edsger Dijkstra
• You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic; You cannot have both at the same time. --Bertrand Meyer
• There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works. --Alan J. Perlis
• Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. --Bill Gates
• The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. --Tom Cargill
• Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs. The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. --Anon
• Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why it works. Programmers combine Theory and Practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
• The Six Phases of a Project: >> Enthusiasm >> Disillusionment
  >> Panic >> Search for the Guilty >> Punishment of the Innocent >> Praise for non-participants
• No matter how slick (efficient) the demo is in rehearsal, When
  you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless
  presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.