In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

Africa will thrive.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

We’re news junkies in my house.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, ‚Wow, these networks have a lot of information.‘

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

I’m not very articulate.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.