There are a lot of great programming quotes out there. Which one do you like? Here are few that i love :

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. – Edward V Berard

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

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.

“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.” — Jamie Zawinski

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. – John Carmack on software patents

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. – Nathaniel S Borenstein

Memory is like an orgasm. It’s a lot better if you don’t have to fake it. – Seymour Cray on virtual memory

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. – C.A.R. Hoare.

“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.” – Keith Bostic

C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. – Steve Taylor

Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.

You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. – Robert Sewell

Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’

“To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” – L. Peter Deutsch

“C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.” – Gavin Russell Baker

If we’re supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?’

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.  - Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

God could create the world in six days because he didn’t have to make it compatible with the previous version

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.  - R. Buckminster Fuller

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and BSD. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” - Jeremy S. Anderson

“Debugging is like farting – it’s not so bad when it’s your own code.”

“Good judgement is the result of experience … Experience is the result of bad judgement.”

I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine! – Ovidiu Platon

The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have. – Laurence Gonzales

“Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers” – P.J O’Rourke

There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can’t and those who mistake it for binary.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. – Linus Torvalds

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” – Brian W. Kernighan

Although not related to programming in general, but anyways :

“There are few this in this world that you don’t want to know about, and for everything else there is Google”