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

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker