"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Anonymous

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare

"There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion." - Hal Abelson

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker

"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." - Bertrand Russell

"What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated." - John E Jones

Weinberg's Law:   If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." - Lao-Tsé

O livro "The Mythical Man-Month", escrito por Fred Brooks, é considerado a Bíblia da Engenharia de Software: todos o leram e o elogiam, mas ninguém liga ao que lá está escrito.

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." - Robert Heinlein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." - Scott Adams

"Want to know the great thing about science? It's true whether you believe in it or not!" - Niel DeGrasse Tyson

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left - however improbable - must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes

Hoare's Law of Large Programs:   Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.