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

Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau