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)

A programmer is someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris .(Larry Wall)