Via meneame.net he encontrado este wiki lleno de citas de programadores.
Aqui algunas de las que más me han gustado

* Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
* He who hasn’t hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
* Computer programming is tremendous fun. Like music, it is a skill that derives from an unknown blend of innate talent and constant practice. Like drawing, it can be shaped to a variety of ends – commercial, artistic, and pure entertainment. Programmers have a well-deserved reputation for working long hours but are rarely credited with being driven by creative fevers. Programmers talk about software development on weekends, vacations, and over meals not because they lack imagination, but because their imagination reveals worlds that others cannot see.
* Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot.
* Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
* Java is, in many ways, C++–
* As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
* If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.