Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
Don't stop with your first draft.
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.