The best thing about a boolean is, even if you are wrong,you are only off by a bit.

Real programs don't eat cache.

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.
-- Kernighan

"In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble."
-- Alan Perlis

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.
Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity
often abstract away its essence.
- Fred Brooks, Jr.

When the program refuses to work as intended, change the
specification to fit the program. It’s easier than vice versa.
--Briefing for new programmers joining Microsoft

Writing software is more fun than working!

Phases of a Project:
(1) Exultation.
(2) Disenchantment.
(3) Confusion.
(4) Search for the Guilty.
(5) Punishment for the Innocent.
(6) Distinction for the Uninvolved.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they
really hate is lousy programmers.

- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"

COBOL is for morons.
-- E.W. Dijkstra