“In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself for his ancestors for his intellectual development a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable.” WorldCareLiteratureLanguageStudyDevelopmentIntellectualGapsAncestorIndispensableWho CaresWorld HistoryVedasLiterary WorksIntellectual Development Author:Max Muller
“Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs” QualityEconomicChildhoodDevelopmentReturnTaxesResearchProgramDollarsInvestmentExtraordinaryHigh QualityEarly ChildhoodTax DollarsReturn On Investment Author:Robert Greenwald
“Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.” MightOrderSacrificeDevelopmentMachinesAbstractFormal Author:Le Corbusier
“Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.” CountryLevelsPayDevelopmentHigherSellsExpensiveGoodsHigher LevelChile Author:Salvador Allende
“China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.” WorldCitiesGrowingBuildingDevelopmentPercentIndiaIncreasePopulationChinaAround The WorldOverwhelmingCarbonFootprintCarbon Footprint Author:Frank Gehry
“Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.” WorldHumansHas BeensStatesReasonHalfPovertyViolenceDevelopmentPopulationInequalityPrimariesRegionsHuman DevelopmentUnrestWorld PopulationHuman PopulationWorld Life Author:Abdul Kalam
“It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.” RevolutionDevelopmentSoil Author:Leon Trotsky
“Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the highest development. But in practise, it is not a question of the future socialist society, with an established internal equilibrium, but of the given technically and culturally backward country which in the interests of industrialisation and collectivization is forced to export as much as possible in order to import as much as possible.” WorldCountryOrderGivenInterestEconomyHugeDevelopmentHighestAdvantageLaborContraryInternalsRejectsDivisionSocialistEquilibriumImportsPractiseDivision Of LaborSocialist Economy Author:Leon Trotsky
“The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.” WorldFirstsMayCountryStatesResultsOpinionGroupsDangerDevelopmentHigherAuthorityMassConsequenceAppreciateDifficultyMethodFundamentalsErrorsWorkersDeeperSocialismInstanceInevitableRevelationsContradictionSovietIsolatedDeclineSocialistBureaucracyRulingPublic Opinion Author:Leon Trotsky
“Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.” StatesWholeGovernmentExistenceEconomyProductsDevelopmentInternetComputerBasesInnovationFundamentalsValleysTechnologicalFundingSatellitesSiliconSilicon ValleyElectronicsMitTechnological DevelopmentGovernment Funding Author:Noam Chomsky
“After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.” YearsHardCreativeFiveDevelopmentInternetPeriodsThirtyFive YearsDomain1960sPublic Domain Author:Noam Chomsky
“They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentRunningPastLawPrinciplesRightsCenturyProductsDevelopmentNegativeCorporationsDifferent KindsOver The PastAmerican LawPersonal Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.” ArtDifferentDoubtDevelopmentTraditionHistoricalWestWesternChinaPopsNo DoubtDifferent PlaceResonancePop Art Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Globalization offers us enormous opportunities in the race to leapfrog in development processes. It also obliges us to set in motion processes which would minimize its risks.” OpportunityProcessRaceRiskDevelopmentOffersEnormousGlobalization Author:Manmohan Singh
“70 percent of India's imports of oil and oil products are imported from abroad. There is uncertainty about supply. There is uncertainty about prices. And that hurts India's development.” HurtProductsDevelopmentPercentIndiaOilUncertaintyImports Author:Manmohan Singh
“If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.” IfsEnergyPathSecurityDevelopmentIndiaAddAccessNuclearMarchNuclear EnergyEnergy Security Author:Manmohan Singh
“There are diverse ways in which - right now, terror and all that goes with it is a prime concern. It's a concern of the United States. It's a concern of India. Joint strategies, cooperation, joint sharing of intelligence, in controlling terrorism, in making the world free from terror. I think that's the fundamental, I think, consideration if our development aspirations are to be fulfilled. And I think our two countries can cooperate.” IfsThinkingWorldWayTwoCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesDevelopmentRight NowConcernIndiaFundamentalsStrategyTerrorTerrorismAspirationConsiderationPrimeCooperationDiverseFulfilledJointsTwo Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.” HelpingTogetherDemocracyDevelopmentAreasTasksIndiaUsaWorking TogetherReconstruction Author:Manmohan Singh
“I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.” PeopleNeedsPurposeEconomyEconomicPolicyDevelopmentUltimateExpandingAlways BelieveEconomic PolicyBasic Needs Author:Manmohan Singh
“I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.” KnowsCharacterStoriesShowsLossDevelopmentOvercomingJazzMeant To BeCompellingGood StoryGood CharacterCharacter Development Author:Kirsten Vangsness
“Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy. He actually was sued twice by the Justice Department.” PeopleMadeRememberJusticeCareersPolicyDevelopmentTrumpUnderstoodDiscriminationAfrican AmericanDepartmentApartmentRacial Discrimination Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which suits our economic elite but has not been helpful to the cause of democracies around the world.” ThinkingWorldNeedsHumansCausesSupportDemocracyRightsEconomicDevelopmentHuman RightsSuitsAround The WorldHelpfulElitesSuperpowerEconomic DevelopmentGrassroots Author:Jill Stein
“I had been doing private readings for ten years when my guides said, "We want you to reach more people." Then I said "How?" They said, "You're going to write a book." And I said, "Oh, yeah sure, I'm going to write a book. No way." But I did an outline. And I got pushed by my development circle.” PeopleWayWantWritingYearsSaidBookReadingDevelopmentTenYeahGuidesCirclesThey SaidOutlines Author:James Van Praagh
“When you guys go into some kind of a deal, you know, are you going to do that development or not, are you going to do that renovation or not, you know, you look at the numbers. You try to figure out what's going to work and what's not going to work.” KnowsTryingLooksKindGuyDealsNumbersFiguresDevelopmentGoing To WorkRenovation Author:Hillary Clinton
“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.” PeopleFormSpaceShareFashionBuildingDevelopmentArchitectureFurnitureProceduresTactile Author:Donna Karan
“The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.” WorldHumansHas BeensDifferentMightNumbersPracticeIssuesRightsInformationDevelopmentInternetConceptsAspectHuman RightsFinanceDifferent ThingsVagueMight Have BeenInfrastructureGovernanceSummitParticipantsSmall NumbersInformation SocietyIct Author:David Souter
“I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the development of content, which is designed to do nothing else but make you click on it or share it. And I think it's kind of a low goal for content, and I think that's taken us to our current abyss.” ThinkingKindWishGoalTakenShareDevelopmentModelsLowsCurrentsAdvertisingAbyssClicksNonprofits Author:Tim Wu
“The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.” HumansSelfProblemGivenPowerfulTechnologyPossibilitySeriousDevelopmentPopulationExtinctionDensityHuman Population Author:Dale Jamieson
“Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.” IfsHas BeensTwoPastPracticeDemocracyAcceptanceDevelopmentDecadesSignificantIdeologyCommunismCollapseRhetoricLiberal Democracy Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“I don't think that the Israeli lobby is unique. It may differ from the others in the extent by which it is focused on just one issue, which is the survival of Israel, which is understandable, and promoting Israeli development and aid to Israel, and so forth and so on.” ThinkingMayIssuesDevelopmentSurvivalUniqueIsraelFocusedAidsJust OnePromotingIsraeli Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.” NeedsDoneGovernmentAmericaTermCompanySupportDevelopmentOrganizationSafetyTradeInternationalContributionDefenceDiplomaticNorth America Author:Chris Alexander
“We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries to market in Canada, and commercialize them here, and stay here through successive stages of growth. But they can only do it with better government policies that give them more powerful incentive.” NeedsGivingIdeasGovernmentGrowthPowerfulStagePolicyDevelopmentResearchDiscoveryCanadaIncentivesPrivate SectorResearch And DevelopmentNew DiscoveriesGovernment Policy Author:Chris Alexander
“The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.” BookWholeGivenOpinionNovelDevelopmentStructurePlotLogicalAmbiguous Author:Emily Barton
“There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.” TurnsStrongVisionTechnologyDesignInspireDevelopmentTechniqueDigitalAmbitiousContinuingEnvelopesReciprocalFabricationDigital Technology Author:Zaha Hadid
“There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.” ShouldIdeasMomentsFocusDevelopmentOrganizationMovedArchitectureDrawingAbstractionFluidFragmentationEarly Work Author:Zaha Hadid
“His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.” NeedsLawOrderPolicyDevelopmentTrumpInvestmentUrbanLaw And OrderStop And Frisk Author:Jesse Jackson
“Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.” DevelopmentCapitalismCompetitionExploitationMonopolyRuthlessMega Author:Kshama Sawant
“I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsBigsCoursesGrowthEconomyDevelopmentSkillsCapacitySouthBoardsSouth AfricaConstraintsPrivate SectorShortage Author:Thabo Mbeki
“We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on growth, on development of employment and so on and so on.” MatterBlackGrowthWealthFocusEconomicDevelopmentEmpowermentTreatsInvestmentEmploymentEconomic Empowerment Author:Thabo Mbeki
“In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've gotta have a little back story going. You've gotta take that time for exposition.” PeopleLittlesCharacterStoriesDevelopmentHorrorCharacter Development Author:Robert Englund
“The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.” WorldMayDevelopmentShocking Author:Jon Spaihts
“Phone companies recognize that the pipes are not enough anymore. You need something to go through the pipes. You need content. I think the consolidation will continue. A huge development is mobility. We want the content where we are....producers need to be where the consumers want them to be.” ThinkingWantNeedsEnoughCompanyHugeDevelopmentPhonesProducersConsumersPipeMobilityConsolidation Author:Maria Bartiromo
“The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.” ProblemPoliticalEconomicDevelopmentSolutionsEconomic DevelopmentDistraught Author:Akbar Ganji
“We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.” YearsChangedTheoryDevelopmentIntellectualIranSecularismIntellectual Development Author:Akbar Ganji
“We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.” DevelopmentIndiaWestEastRegionsParametersEast And West Author:Narendra Modi
“We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldDoeCountryShowsHappensCareIndividualNumbersResponsibilityJudgingDevelopmentCitizensTake CareOur CountrySpecialists Author:Erich Fromm
“If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"” IfsMenMightLife IsValuesAsksDevelopmentSurvivalHighestTraditionDignityWesternSupremeThings In Life Author:Erich Fromm
“What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.” PeopleBigsForceCommonDevelopmentMassOur SocietyBureaucracyPersuasionManaging People Author:Erich Fromm
“[ Big infrastructure investment mentioned by Donald Trump] that would be a welcome development. We'll see if he wants to deliver on that. The truth is that if he does, we want to see infrastructure development too.” IfsWantDoeBigsWould BeDevelopmentTrumpTruth IsInvestmentWelcomeInfrastructure Author:Keith Ellison
“One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.” ThinkingWritingDangerParticularDevelopmentTopicsItemsBlogsOpinionated Author:Mickey Kaus