Infrastructure Quotes - Page 8

• Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

  James Fallows

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• Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Thinking, Tree, Growing

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• One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

  Chuck D

  Years, Hip Hop, Lazy

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• The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.

  Jacob Lew

  School, Holiday, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

  Shelley Berkley

  Jobs, Doe, Investing

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• It's one thing to work women into your talking points. It's another to tell them how you are going to educate their kids, how you are going to ensure they get health care, how we are going to rebuild infrastructure, how they are going to get equal pay.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Kids, Equal Pay, Talking

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• We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

  Robert Cailliau

  Names, Lines, One Line

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• In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A "good" consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.

  Mario Draghi

  Government, Investment, Currents

  "Interview with The Wall Street Journal". Interview with Robert Thomson, Matt Karnitschnig, Brian Blackston, www.ecb.europa.eu. February 24, 2012.

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• The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

  Tommy Franks

  Mom, Country, Growing Up

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• On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

  Marc Andreessen

  Tools, Needs, Internet

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• The fact is, America needs energy and new energy infrastructure, and the Keystone XL pipeline will help us achieve that with good stewardship.

  John Hoeven

  America, Energy, Keystone Pipeline

  "A blueprint for environment, energy" by John Hoeven, www.politico.com. April 15, 2012.

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• Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Airports, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Maintenance, Use

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, www.dissentmagazine.org. Spring 2012.

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• Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesnt borrow money and mortgage my future.

  Steve Stivers

  Jobs, Bills, Mortgage

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• Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

  Jamais Cascio

  Cutting, Clouds, Data

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• Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.

  Myron Scholes

  Running, Simple, Compelling Reason

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• We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

  Roger McNamee

  Thinking, Bridges, Long

  "Obama Needs to Think Bigger About Infrastructure" by Roger McNamee, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2009.

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• The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.

  Richard Attias

  Loss, Growth, Poor

  "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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• When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your cell phone, and we're also talking about internet routers themselves. The NSA is attacking the critical infrastructure of the internet to try to take ownership of it. They hack the routers that connect nations to the internet itself.

  Edward Snowden

  Home, Phones, Cells

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

  Scott McNealy

  Distance, Believe, Moving

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• Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Jobs, Responsibility, Government

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

  Dominic Cooper

  Country, Good Life, Iraq

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• We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Land, Vision, Levels

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We've got to make sure that we rebuild the infrastructure in America, because we used to be - have the best bridges, the best roads, the best airports. And now, when you go to China or you go to Europe, you see that they are outstripping us in terms of infrastructure. And if we put people back to work, that would be good not only in the short term, but it would also lay the foundation, the framework for long-term economic and job growth.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Europe, Bridges

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Leader, Weapons

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