The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Pay attention to opportunity cost at all times. Doing one thing means not doing other things. This is a form of risk that is very easy to ignore, to your detriment. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

I feel it is everybodies obligation to reach for the best in themselves and use that for the interest of mankind. -- Corneluis (comment on 'Are you going to change the world? (Really?)')

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan