Interesting Computer Programming Quotes

I'm back! I have here some of the most interesting Computer Programming related quotes. Enjoy! ^^

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
* Rick Cook (or Rich Cook?) [citation needed]

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
* Edsger W. Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer, 1972 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 15 (10), (October 1972): pp. 859–866

There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
* Larry Flon

No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.
* Mark Gibbs

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
* Grace Hopper, quoted in Management and the Computer of the Future (1962) by Sloan School of Management, p. 277

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
* Donald Knuth, "Structured Programming with Goto Statements". Computing Surveys 6:4 (December 1974), pp. 261–301, §1.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
* Alan Perlis, "Epigrams on Programming"

Computer programmers never die, they just become lost in the processing.
* Anonymous

Computers can never replace human stupidity.
* Anonymous

Good programming is 99% sweat and 1% coffee.
* Anonymous