Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.Michael Sinz
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.Linus Torvalds
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.Eric S. Raymond
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.Martin Fowler
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.Bjarne Stroustrup
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.John Romero