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

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus