1.A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. (Doug Linder)

好的程序员即使在过单行道时也总是会环顾两边。

2.Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job. (Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering)

不要担心它能否正常工作。如果一切正常，那么你就会失去工作。

3.The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. (Seymour Cray)

程序员的烦恼是，你永远无法知道一个程序员在做什么，直到为时已晚。

4.Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. (Larry Wall)

程序员的美德：懒惰，没有耐心以及老子天下第一。

5.Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding)

写代码的时候总是想象维护你代码的家伙是一个知道你住在哪里的暴力精神病患者。

6.One man’s crappy software is another man’s full time job. (Jessica Gaston)

一个人写的烂软件将会给另一个人带来一份全职工作。

7.If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along wound destroy civilization. (Gerald Weinberg)

如果建筑工人用程序员写程序的方式建造建筑物，那么来的第一只啄木鸟（找bug）就将摧毁文明。

8.The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.  That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents. (Nathaniel Borenstein)

大多数专家认为，世界被破坏的最有可能的方式是，是因为偶然。那就是我们所要进入的领域：我们是计算机专家。我们制造偶然。

9.It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes. (Keith  Braithwaite)

这是我们这个行业的一件咄咄怪事：我们不仅不从错误中学习，我们也不从成功中学习。

10.Once a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. (Stewart Brand)

一旦一种新技术开始滚动碾压道路，如果你不能成为压路机的一部分，那么你就只能成为道路的一部分。

11. If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0 (unknown)

如果第一次你没有成功，那么称之为1.0版，继续加油。

12.All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. (Anonymous Hack Actor)

所有的程序员都剧作家，而所有计算机都是糟糕的演员。

13.The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up. (Anonymous Scheduler)

工作拉下得越早，赶上去所需要的时间越多。

14.When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English. (Anonymous Linguist)

当创建一种编程语言允许程序员使用简单英语编程的时候，那么新问题又来了，你会发现程序员不说英语。

15.Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over? (Anonymous)

为什么我们总是没有时间把事情做对，却有时间做完它？

16.Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

傻瓜写计算机能理解的代码。优秀的程序员写人类能读懂的代码。

17.Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. (Eagleson’s law)

自己的代码六个月或更久不见，还不如别人写的代码。