“Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.” InspirationalSeemsFiveDevelopmentResearchDollarsBillionsApplesCopiesGoogleResearch And DevelopmentUp North Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.” KnowsJobsStrongChildhoodDevelopmentTrainingResearchStrategyDollarsInfrastructureRebuildingEarly ChildhoodResearch And DevelopmentEarly Childhood EducationJob Training Author:Barack Obama
“If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.” IfsWantHumansIdeasTodayJobsSpaceAnswersLevelsRaceBrainEconomyProductsDevelopmentCreatingResearchScientistInnovationDollarsInvestmentHeightGutsMapsHuman BrainAlzheimerAlzheimer'sResearch And DevelopmentGenomeMappingSpace RaceEconomy Today Author:Barack Obama
“It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.” ThinkingWellsMightJobsProcessMillionsDevelopmentToolsHarderDollarsProgrammingSoftwareFlawedSoftware EngineeringSoftware Development Book:The Inmates are Running the Asylum Source: The Inmates are Running the Asylum
“Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.” BodySeemsMotivationCoursesSocialCommunityIdentityDevelopmentDollarsUnitySexualityCivilizedRitualSolidarityMysticalIndispensableMasculineNurturingSuperstitiousSexistKinshipPentagonSocial ScienceCivilized SocietyMaternityPersonal Identity Book:Sexual suicide Source: Sexual suicide
“I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.” MenGivingLongIdeasHardValuesTermHalfSourceDevelopmentAll ThingsDollarsBrilliantPracticalsCentsSchemesPrincipalInventorSpongesMaturedBusiness ManMiddlemen Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous.” YearsAgeLastsFallOpportunityEnergyEconomicDevelopmentPromiseCostIndiaDollarsRoseCleanInvestmentExpectedBillionsDrivingGenuineCentsLast YearAdoptionNew AgeRenewable EnergyEconomic DevelopmentSustainable Energy Author:Adnan
“The consistent growth in overall revenues shows marketers may be shifting more of their total advertising budgets to online. This is a natural development as research shows more consumers are spending a larger percentage of their media time online, while the flow of advertising dollars follows.” MayShowsGrowthNaturalMediaDevelopmentResearchFlowDollarsSpendingAdvertisingConsumersBudgetsConsistentOnlineRevenueShiftingPercentagesMarketers Author:David Silverman
“You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.” ShouldBelieveHumansWarHomeAmericaDevelopmentIncreaseDollarsInternationalIraqBillionsTerroristSentimentsTaxpayersDrainsHuman DevelopmentInternational PeaceAnti-american Author:Coretta Scott King
“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
“For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.” ChildrenEndsCoursesCrimeDevelopmentInvolvedDollarsUnemployedChild DevelopmentDelinquents Author:Michael Marmot
“Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.” PeopleTalkingEconomicDevelopmentNeededProgramDollarsInvestingVariousBillionsEconomic Development Author:Muhammad Yunus