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“Nine women can’t make a baby in one month” – Fred Brooks

“24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?” – Stephen Wright

“Pessimists, we’re told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty.  Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full.  Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.” – Bob Lewis

“Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.”– Ralph Johnson

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay (INVENTOR of object-oriented programming, the windows-based GUI, the laptop, and the tablet computer)

“The most important thing in a programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name, and now I am looking for a suitable language.” – Donald E. Knuth

“Languages shape the way we think, or don’t.” – Erik Naggum

“Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.” – Sam Redwine

“To err is human. To blame it on a computer is even more so.” – anonymous

Troutman’s Sixth Programming Postulate: “Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.”

“Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.” – Edsger W. Dijkstra

“From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.” – Grace Hopper, on the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark I experimental computer at Harvard in August 1945

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

“The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.”– Richard Moore

“It was a joke, okay?  If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn’t have written it!” – Mark Andreesen, speaking of the HTML tag BLINK

“I think computer viruses should count as life.  I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.  We’ve created life in our own image.”– Stephen Hawking

“Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.” – Chris Pirillo