Programming mottos.

Some of the more effective mottos:

APL: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

APL: The language your mother warned you about.

C: Combines the power of assembly language with the readability and maintainability of assembly language.

C and C++: Enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot.

C++: An octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.

Objective C: All the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of
Smalltalk.

Erlang: Let it crash.

Erlang: Compile once run forever.

Erlang/Prolog: Failure is very much an option.

Functional programming: Combining the power of abstract mathematics with the intuitive clarity of abstract mathematics.

Haskell: Avoid success at all costs.

Haskell: If it compiles, it probably works.

Programming in Haskell: An hour of meditation, followed by the emission of a single 'fold' expression.

Java: C++ with all the knives, guns, and clubs put away.

Java is like Cobol: you have to write a lot of words to get a little bit done.
Ruby is the opposite: you only need write a few words to get a lot done.

JavaScript: Any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript (a.k.a., Atwood's Law.)

JavaScript: A vastly underrated language that became a vastly overrated language.

JavaScript: It doesn't suck as much as you think.

Lisp: To iterate is human; to recurse is divine.

Common Lisp: Most intelligent way to misuse the computer.

Perl: A write-only language.

Perl: The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption, etc.

Perl: If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a Java program. The rest of them will write Perl programs.

Perl: There is more than one way to do it

PHP: There is more than one way to screw it.

Python: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Python: Compile, run and ship your pseudo-code.

Python: There is exactly one correct way to do it.

The Zen of Python: Beautiful is better than ugly, etc.

Scheme: The only language with more implementations than programmers.

Prolog: A language with the intelligence of a two year old, so therefore one that says "No" to every query.

Prolog: "It was invented by Bob Kowalski in 1974 and implemented by Alain Colmerauer in 1973."