“Many state governments have launched innovative steps such as Ladli Laxmi scheme of Madhya Pradesh, PDS reform scheme of Chattisgarh, computerization of land records in Karnataka, free computers to students passing 10th standard exams, pollution control efforts in Himachal, power sector reforms in Rajasthan and Mumbai - Pune Expressway in Maharashta. These excellent innovative schemes are examples of good governance.” StatesGovernmentEffortStepsRecordsLandExampleStudentsComputerStandardsIndiaPassingPassingsReformExcellentPollutionSchemesGovernanceInnovativeExamState GovernmentMumbaiGood GovernancePollution ControlPune Author:Narendra Modi
“I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.” WayWantWritingTryingFirstsKindStatesHandsSeemsReadingInterestingFictionStepsAchieveMaterialsComputerCreatingMessUnconsciousMost InterestingNon Fiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that!" So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!” UseRunningMovingArtistSongInterestStepsComputerListsTitlesPhrasesSong Titles Author:Andy Summers
“For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED to shut off the computer, push myself back from my desk and escape the studio space to let possible ideas percolate in my gray matter before committing anything to paper or digital imagery as a sketch or a concept.” NeedsIdeasMatterSpaceStepsHellPaperComputerConceptsStudiosDigitalGrayDesksImagerySketchingGray MatterStudio Space Author:Jeff Fisher
“We can open up our computers and Skype with someone, and we see them. It's like looking through a window. And we can surf the internet through our phones, and it's like our consciousness is far away. Or we can step through a airplane door and be in another continent a few hours away. So technology feels, to me, like the doors sort of already exist, at least emotionally.” FeelsHoursConsciousnessStepsTechnologyDoorsInternetComputerWindowPhonesAirplaneFar AwayContinentsSurfSkype Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.” PeopleThinkingMomentsTalkingStepsTakenComputerLosingConnectionsFencePessimisticDown The RoadAlready Taken Author:Howard Rheingold
“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.” BlackStepsSubjectsStudentsReadyComputerTestsPressureGeeseIntegersWhittling Book:Heart, You Bully, You Punk Source: Heart, You Bully, You Punk
“I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.” YearsBookPastArtistWalksStepsMorningMiddlePaintingRight NowComputerResearchTiredPaintFinishedEastGet UpMiddle EastFurnitureUp Early Author:Jimmy Carter