Quotes About Development

As Fidel Castro, the leader of Communist Cuba, would explain with a frankness that his Russian mentors preferred to avoid: "The revolution needs the enemy. . . . The revolution needs for its development its antithesis, which is the counterrevolution."9 And if enemies were lacking, they had to be fabricated.

Richard Reeves

When people look at a dangerous violent criminal at the beginning of his developmental process rather than at the very end of it, they will see, perhaps unexpectedly, that the dangerous violent criminal began as a relatively benign human being for whom they would probably have more sympathy than antipathy.

Pump seals therefore had to be devised that were both gastight and greaseless, a puzzle no one had ever solved before that required the development of new kinds of plastics. (The seal material that eventually served at Oak Ridge came into its own after the war under the brand name Teflon.)

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Only if we can develop a broadly shared understanding of our common history will it be practical to consider steps we could take to fulfill our obligations.

If you try to force the mingling of people who are not yet ready to mingle, and don't want to mingle, development cannot succeed economically.

The San Francisco Housing Authority, in 1942, constructed a massive development to house 14,000 workers and their families at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and began to assign apartments on a nondiscriminatory first-come, first-served basis. The navy objected, insisting that integration would cause racial conflict among workers and interfere with ship repair.

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

This is also part of the story: how the story changes.

Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts from one foot to the other.

We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

But people keep outgrowing their outgrowing

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

There will be very few jobs for life, much less security, and very little predictability. There will be an emphasis instead on being able to learn, develop, and adapt rapidly as new roles and tasks arise. Different ways of communicating Not many decades ago professionals communicated in three ways—face-to-face, in writing, and by telephone. That was it.

More than this, however, professionals should become directly involved in the development of the systems that handle and deliver practical expertise.

our professions, as presently organized, often discourage self-help, self-discovery, and self-reliance;

As Voltaire would caution, in reforming or transforming the professions, we should not let the best be the enemy of the good.

The best thing is that if you get a lot of mistakes over and done with early on in your life, there will be less to learn the hard way later on. And that's what youth is all about, a chance to make all the mistakes you can and get them out of the way

The democratic principles of Europe are by no means suited to the development of Asiatic and African people.

So the question of our origins concerns the forces that sprung Homo erectus from their australopithecine past. Anthropologists have an answer. According to the most popular view since the 1950s there was a single supposed impetus: the eating of meat.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.