Good computer quotes

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable!!
--Ralph Johnson

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
--Edsger Dijkstra

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.
--Alan J. Perlis

If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
--attributed to Norm Schryer

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
--Alan J. Perlis

Copy and paste is a design error
--David Parnas

Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
--Eagleson's law

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
--Bill Gates

The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user.