Modern Infrastructure Quotes

I'd say is stimulus infrastructure spending is not instant jobs. I think the real reason the president [Donald Trump] wants to do this is because we have a crumbling infrastructure problem and you need a good modern infrastructure for economic growth to occur.

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

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and incredibly agonised - smoking, burning, incredible compression. In the first year we stayed on the ground and went everywhere. But then in order to discover whether this was the whole story, we rented a helicopter. And we began to understand that this is not chaos but a highly modern system that had been abandoned, then at some point went into reversal, then slowly came out of it.

Jaipur has definitely turned into a very beautiful city.

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

I have heard a lot of good stories about the UAE through my colleagues and those who have been here.

Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome.

I think Singapore is one of the great cities of the world.

The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.

Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.

I feel like we've inherited modern infrastructure, and I could run away from it and become a full-time activist, or I can try to do my job, and try to talk about things I care about, and be able to do something like sponsor a topsoil conference in Nova Scotia, and talk about Bill McKibben, and narrate a documentary about the vanishing of the bees, and try to navigate my way through this world the best way possible. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Probably like many people right now.

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them.

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.