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

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson