When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frédéric Bastiat
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. Martin Fowler
Maybe "just one little global variable" isn't too unmanageable, but that style leads to code that is useless except to its original programmer. Bjarne Stroustrup
Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together. Ben Gibbard
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. Ken Thompson
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. Kent Beck