Quotes About Development

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

Umoristica (materna): "Aveva la dote più apprezzata dei neonati, ovvero l'Arte Di Mettere Su Peso

The HPI measures two things: the well-being of nations and the sustainability of nations.

Still, children seem like empty vessels who pick up on everything and are so affected by their surroundings. I mean, that's what they tell me in therapy and it seems to be true. Stuff I don't consciously remember affects my behavior every day. I see that now

there's a difference between doing something and being something, but they merge into each other. I mean, you play the piano a bit, and then more and more, and at some point you become a pianist. That's who you are.

Bit by bit, we become people we don't want to be,

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

The arc of our evolutionary history is long. But it bends towards goodness

The fundamental reason is that we each carry within us an evolutionary blueprint for making a good society.

Whatever the committee decided, it would take time for the towers to be built.

the technology existed.

Experiments show that just as the brain can build new or stronger circuits through physical or mental practice, those circuits can weaken or dissolve with neglect.

There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

Our intellectual maturation as individuals can be traced through the way we draw pictures, or maps, of our surroundings. We begin with primitive, literal renderings of the features of the land we see around us, and we advance to ever more accurate, and more abstract, representations of geographic and topographic space. We progress, in other words, from drawing what we see to drawing what we know.

To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly

The clock played a crucial role in propelling us out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance and then the Enlightenment.

Fully transferring an explicit memory from the hippocampus to the cortex is a gradual process that can take many years.

Wayfaring becomes "an ongoing process of growth and development, or self-renewal." Transport, on the other hand, is "essentially destination-oriented.

Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google," he said in a 2000 interview, long before his company's name had become a household word. "We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Technology shapes economics, and economics shapes society.

A hundred years ago, we arrived at such as moment with technologies that extend man's physical powers. We are at another such moment today with technologies that extend our intellectual power