There was a surprising lack of Alan Perlis on the original list! His "epigrams on programming" should be required reading for every programmer, even if some are

There was a surprising lack of Alan Perlis on the original list! His "epigrams on programming" should be required reading for every programmer, even if some are a little dated now: http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html