Development Pace Quotes

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.

I started growing late, so I was a late developer.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Cultural growth, like economic development rarely comes as a steady advance on all fronts at once.

All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

...industrialisation took centuries, rather than decades

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

Look at how fast technology is developing.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

Trade ministers lag behind technology or the development of technology.

One problem we face in policymaking is the danger of having technology develop faster than the legal and regulatory system can react, potentially risking safety as well as efficient development and testing.

I've always been what they call a late bloomer.

There's no straight line to progress.

I don't have children, but when I meet my friends' kids at six months old, and then I don't see them again for another six months, the changes are drastic. But if you've seen them every day, the changes are less shocking.

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.

The team has come along slow but fast.