George Santayana, the Spanish-American poet and philosopher, once warned that "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." This is especially true in the field of bridge building, where over the past 150 years dramatic failures have occurred at surprisingly regular intervals.
George Santayana, le poète et philosophe américain d'origine espagnole, nous avait prévenus : " Ceux qui ne connaissent pas le passé sont condamnés à le répéter ".