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

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb