I present to you the collection of programming quotes that I gather here and there on the long journey to become a better coder.
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there — Gordon Bell
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. — Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger in The Elements of Programming Style.