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Quotes About Development

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
~ Ram Shriram
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
~ J. G. Ballard
The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.
~ James Dyson
If you look at America, one of the great strengths of America is its university towns and the way a lot of their businesses and a lot of their innovation and enormous economic growth have come from reducing that gap, getting those universities directly involved in start-up businesses, green field businesses, new development businesses.
~ Denis Napthine
Campuses of best universities of the world will be set up in Knowledge Park.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.
~ Ro Khanna
People study and play sports side by side. So, most of the talent exists in schools and universities.
~ Dutee Chand
Most of India is rural; there is a huge population in India not being tapped for their excellence. They have no access to great universities.
~ Roshni Nadar
I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
~ Anton Chekhov
During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
~ Chris Ware
My university work was not central to my education.
~ Italo Calvino
The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
~ Zhang Zhidong
My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.
~ Michael Smith
No state legislature ever built a great university.
~ James E. Rogers
With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students.
~ Michael N. Castle
I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.
~ George Pataki
The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.
~ Rick Dees
I actually went to university.
~ Ben Barnes
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
~ David Nicholls
When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.
~ Kate Beckinsale
I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an actor and what I wanted to do.
~ Tom Riley
As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
~ Richard Attias