You must excuse my gruff conduct,” the watchdog said, after they’d been driving for some time, “but you see it’s traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.

— Norton Juster

If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.

— Jez Humble

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

— Richard P. Gabriel

How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean.

— Pushkar Saraf

Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.

— Amit Kalantri

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

— Tom DeMarco

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

— Jon Postel

Technical staff were fairly good at estimation but were poor at defending their estimates.

— Philip Metzger