下面的这些经典的引言来自英文，也许有些我翻译的是不很好，所以，我提供了中英对照，如果有问题，请大家指正。

用代码行来衡量开发进度，无异于用重量来衡量制造飞机的进度。Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
- Bill Gates
PHP被一些不合格的业余人员造就成了一个小恶魔；而Perl则是被一些熟练的但不正当的专业人员造就成了一个超级大恶魔。PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
- Jon Ribbens
在两个场合我被问到：“请你告诉我，如果你给机器输入了错误的数字，那么，是否还能得到
正确的
答案？”我并不能正确领会这类想法。（注意，本引言的作者姓Babbage，这个名字和神父同名，意思是，作者在反问提问的人，你是问我还是向神父祈祷？）On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
- Charles Babbage
在编程的时候，我们一定要想像一下，以后维护我们自己的代码的那个人会成为一个有暴力倾向的疯子，并且，他还知道我们住在哪里？Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
- Rick Osborne
现代的编程是“程序员努力建一个更大更傻的程序”和“世界正在尝试创造更多更傻的人”之间的一种竞赛，目前为止，后者是赢家。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.
- Rich Cook

理论上来说，理论和实际是一样的。但实际上来说，他们则不是。In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not.
- Unknown
只有两个事情是无穷尽的：宇宙和人类的愚蠢。当然，我现在还不能确定宇宙是无穷尽的。Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Perl这种语言就好像是被RSA加密算法加密过的一样。Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
- Keith Bostic
我爱“最终期限”，我喜欢“嗖嗖嗖”的声音就像他们在飞一样。I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams
说Java好的是因为它跨平台就像好像说肛交好是因为其可以适用于一切性别。Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders
- Unknown

XML就像是一种强暴——如果它不能解决你的问题，那只能说明你没有用好它。XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.
- Unknown
爱因期坦说，自然界中的一切一定会有一个简单的解释，因为上帝并不是反复无常和独裁的。当然，不会有什么信仰能程序员像爱因期坦那样感到舒服。Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
- Fred Brooks