"When your hammer is C++, every problem looks like a thumb."
"If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a
Java program. The rest of them will write Perl programs."
"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." ~Author Unknown
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." ~Doug Linder
"Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and
the final touches also take 90 percent of the time." ~N.J. Rubenking
"If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a
shower, e.g., with no external memory aids, you are not ready to code it." ~Richard Pattis
And my personal favorite....
"It's the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you
have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation." ~Andy Hertzfeld, about programming