“Low code quality keeps haunting our entire industry. That, and sloppy programmers who don't understand the frameworks they work within. They're like plumbers high on glue.”

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 15

Source: Object-oriented design: a responsibility-driven approach (1989), p. 13

Source: Dr.Janak Raj Jai Presidents of India, 1950-2003 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=r2C2InxI0xAC&pg=PA126, Daya Books, 1 January 2003, P.133

Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 225
Context: It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.

Source: Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

Source: M is for Malice

Quoted in "Functional programming in C++" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_programming_in_C.php

Interview with Linus Torvalds of The Linux Foundation, 2008-09-15, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-31 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/events/node/154,
2000s, 2008

Attributed to the Teen Vogue interview four years earlier
" Looks like teen spirit: Kurt Cobain's daughter Frances Bean dumps the glam for grunge http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1207873/Kurt-Cobains-daughter-Frances-Bean-Cobain-dumps-glam-grunge.html" (2009)