You can lead a horse to coffee, but you can’t make him drink.
Source: Missed Connections: How Brands Fumble and How to Avoid Their Mistakes | Taj Forer | Pulse | LinkedIn (forbidden link – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/missed-connections-how-brands-fumble-avoid-mistakes-taj-forer)
Each time, the taxpayer is called on to bail out the crisis, increasingly the major finance institutions. If you had a capitalist economy, you wouldn’t do that. In a capitalist system, that would wipe out the investors, who made risky investments. But the rich and powerful, they don’t want a capitalist system. They want to be able to run to the nanny state, as soon as they are in trouble and get bailed out by the taxpayer. That’s called too big to fail.
– Noam Chomsky
As developers, we are often one of the last lines of defense against potentially dangerous and unethical practices.
The more software continues to take over every aspect of our lives, the more important it will be for us to take a stand and ensure that our ethics are ever-present in our code.
Source: The code I’m still ashamed of
There are a million dumb ways to die, don’t let it be around buses and trains.
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” — Steve Martin
Source: Steve Martin Quote: “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Quotefancy