Martin Fowler's quote seems to be a riff on Weinberg's various folksy observations in The Psychology of Computer Programming -- though maybe Weinberg picked it up from elsewhere.
The Alan Kay quote is a possibly apocryphal story; there are varying accounts[1] (and see [2]).
No list of programming quotes is complete without the Epigrams of Alan Perlis[3].
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 19.6 ms ] threadThis one reminds me of The Story of Mel <http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html>;
The Alan Kay quote is a possibly apocryphal story; there are varying accounts[1] (and see [2]).
No list of programming quotes is complete without the Epigrams of Alan Perlis[3].
[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeInventedTheTerm [2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeDidntInventTheTerm [3] http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html