If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
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.
Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.
Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.