"It's always the details that get you in trouble."

"The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program p…"

"As flat as an open can of coke, left on a programmer's desk over the weekend."

"Wiz thought about what it would be like to work with a computer that killed the programmer every time it crashed and …"

"It is a pity the universe doesn't use a segmented architecture with a protected mode!"

"Murphy said, 'Constants aren't', and Murphy was apparently one of the gods of this universe."

"He deliberately left them out of the code. After all, he rationalized, this is only version 1.0."

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and …"

"Judith looked at the demons and shook her head. "I'm glad we didn't build four processors. I'm not sure I could take …"

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again."