Quotes I like:

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilisation.

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

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.

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.