I had this among my Delicious bookmarks already, but the previous link was broken.

Donald Knuth: "The practitioner of literate programming can be regarded as an essayist, whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style." (Via Ben Hammersley.)

"[...] you spend so much time working out the solution to a problem, that by the time you come to write it up, you're both bored with it and resentful of the future readers for not knowing the answer themselves." (Via himself.)

"In prose, a bad choice like this would have been caught by me editor, or would by now be way back in the rear view mirror. In code, we've had to repeat the same awkward construction in more and more places."

"Good fiction doesn't just happen, it is designed. [...] In my day job, I'm a software architect designing large software projects. I write fiction the same way I write software, using the 'snowflake metaphor'." (Via Matt Webb.)

"Mark Twain once attached a note to a letter that read, 'Sorry about the long letter, I didn't have time to write a short one.'"