Smart Cities Quotes

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

We need to find innovative ways to dramatically ease congestion, improve personal mobility, and cut energy use.

The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.

I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

I dream of a Digital India where high-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation.

In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google.

The launch of free Wi-Fi service is a step forward to smart cities to bring revolutionary change in the lives of the masses and to bridge the digital divide.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger.

We need to build roads, bridges, airports, locks, dams, and rail that work for this century - not the last one. And let's not forget about updating our energy grid, repairing and replacing our water infrastructure and sewers, and making sure all Americans have access to broadband.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

We can’t be a great country unless we have great cities.

Siemens is keen on all the same things the UAE is keen on.

This century is going to be linked with the virtual world. Maybe in the days to come we will have virtual malls and digital manufacturing. Change is coming fast and we need our urban areas to keep pace with these changes.

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

Singapore is likely to be the world's first market for self-driving cars. Commercial services around self-driving vehicles will likely be in Singapore before they are anywhere else in the world.

Every street light will be interconnected to the Internet because we can save when car is not passing. Automobile will all be connected, so driverless car much safer.

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.

At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your bike, keep track of it, and collect data that helps to improve the service.