There is a common misconception that great ideas come from a blank sheet of paper, but this is simply not true - good developers will come up with better, smarter product designs if they know what they are trying to achieve and where they can look for existing know-how.

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He did this simply so that the paper might be credited to Alpher, Bethe, Gamow, close enough to the first three letters of the Greek alphabet.

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The best way to do this is to simply go outside with a brown paper bag and start scooping them in.

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This is not simply a matter of signing a piece of paper or taking a bureaucratic act.

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But, as Thomas Mayer and Daniel Gros identified in a recent paper for the Centre for European Policy Studies, this problem can't be solved by simply expanding the EFSF - and not just because it takes so long to do it.

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