Quotes About Development

Markets - on their own - will not make investments in the technologies and infrastructure that would benefit an entire industry.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

In this era of globalisation, I believe that the only way to push the Philippines forward is to focus our energy on improving English, mathematics, science, and technology.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science and technology, although they represented an important basis for this development.

The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

The Green Revolution was criticised by social activists on the ground that the high-yield technology involving the use of mineral fertilizers and chemical pesticides is environmentally harmful.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development.

I believe that your creativity increases when you evolve with changing technology.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

In any technology, one has to be very careful to ensure that it is good and has enough safeguards.

Safety is not just about trying really hard and being really careful. You have to design technology that makes it possible for a computer to be safe.

The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.