It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. - E. W. Dijkstra
Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out. - Paul Krugman
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. - Unknown
Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because "They're not efficient." (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)