Quotes About Development

we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty.

as self-interest can be the driver of growth.

Having spent a couple of decades in this mind-set, I am convinced (but cannot prove) that training and education can help us avoid its pitfalls.

History and societies do not crawl. They make jumps.

someone may evolve and contradict earlier beliefs

so the gains in life expectancy are more societal than from the result of scientific advance.

While I accept the notion of epistemic base, what I question is the role it has really played in the history of technology.

But it took the Industrial Revolution for us to discover this earlier discovery.

There is no evolution without skin in the game.

soccer moms try to eliminate the trial and error, the antifragility, from children's lives

To value a person consider the difference between how he or she was impressive at the first encounter and the most recent one.

and, although it was a less ambitious version than initially envisioned

take advantage of a valuable alternative that is superior to what precedes it

In fact, economic growth comes from such risk taking.

To understand progress: all places we call ugly are both man-made and modern, never natural or historical.

Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders

too high a rate of mutation prevents locking in the benefits of previous changes: evolution (and progress) requires some, but not too frequent, variation.

It is not your skills that are to blame.

feel that you are due an upgrade

Trial and error means trying a lot.

Today's materials allow us to avoid such constraint.

Um peru é alimentado durante mil dias por um açougueiro; cada dia

It was of course picked up through natural selection, survivorship, apprenticeship to experienced practitioners, and one's own experience.

No, we don't put theories into practice. We create theories out of practice.