Quotes About Development

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

In my way of thinking, the world was my oyster, and there were thousands of products that could be developed.

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

Every year, thousands of startups are founded - not only in technology, but increasingly also in health care, education, and energy.

The Hunting Bayou and Greens Bayou watersheds have experienced major flooding over the years and are crying out for investment to protect the hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in those areas.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

I think my jump shot could get a lot, lot better. I could become a really big threat out there.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

The main thing is I've tried to get better at everything - that includes the attacking side, being a threat, and taking people on.

The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.

The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the speech of anyone who has feelings they find objectionable. It makes comics tentative to push boundaries and freely talk about the thoughts in their heads. That part is terrible for development.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Change is not threatening.

Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven't had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.

We must be practical. Talking about trade and other nice things are more soothing to the ear than security. But it won't be until we have sufficient security against internal, regional, and continental threats that we can be sure of real development.