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

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

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

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous