What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. - Fred Brooks

Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it. - Patrick McKenzie

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. - Niklaus Wirth

No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first. - Andy Hunt