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

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

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

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt