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

The software isn't finished until the last user is dead. -Anonymous

Why do we expect documentation to accurately describe the product when the documentation is finished first? -Anonymous , "understanding documentation..."

It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. -Anonymous

Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen. -Anonymous

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten. -Anonymous

There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production. -Anonymous

If the code doesn't bother you, don't bother it. -Anonymous

Programming software is a constant fight. -Anonymous

Since I started programming I make as much errors in real life as I make in my source code. -Anonymous

Don't keep doing what doesn't work. -Anonymous

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete. -Terry Baker

Good customer relations double productivity. -Larry Bernstein

Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2. -Fred Blechman

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. -Frederick P. Brooks

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -Rich Cook

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. - Seymour Cray