Quotes About Development

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.

We must become more energy independent. The development of ANWR will assist in this goal.

Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China.

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

BUILD WITH LEGO Big is best built from small. Bake one small cake. Bake another. And another. Then stack them.

The officials told Gehry that they wanted a building that could do for Bilbao and the Basque Country what the Sydney Opera House had done for Sydney and Australia: put them on the map and bring back growth.

Nevertheless, with respect to cost development, there is a striking similarity between these and other major projects: there is a tendency towards a significant underestimation of costs during project appraisal. This is also the conclusion we draw when we review data from a large number of major transport infrastructure projects, and from other types of project as well.

Projects are not goals in themselves. Projects are how goals are achieved. People don't build skyscrapers

There are five project types that are not fat-tailed. That means they may come in somewhat late or over budget but it's very unlikely that they will go disastrously wrong. The fortunate five? They are solar power, wind power, fossil thermal power (power plants that generate electricity by burning fossil fuels), electricity transmission, and roads. In fact, the best-performing project types in my entire database, by a comfortable margin, are wind and solar power.

And why are wind and solar power the most reliable projects of all, more likely than any other project type to be delivered successfully?

By now you know the solution to the puzzle I discussed at the end of the previous chapter: Only five project types—solar power, wind power, fossil thermal power, electricity transmission, and roads—are not fat-tailed, meaning that they, unlike all the rest, do not have a considerable risk of going disastrously wrong. So what sets the fortunate five apart? They are all modular to a considerable degree, some extremely so.

Megaproject development today is not a field of what has been called 'honest numbers'.14 It is a field where you will see one group of professionals calling the work of another not only 'biased' and 'seriously flawed' but a 'grave embarrassment' to the profession.

It's relatively easy to build something small and simple.

Little beginnings sometimes have great endings.

Life is like a current passing from germ to germ through the medium of a developed organism.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.

we try to describe the path from then to now, and in doing so select for our accounts the elements in a once indeterminate situation that appear to have led to the future outcome.