P. J. Plauger quotes:

Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

Don't stop with your first draft.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.