"Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development."

-- Robert Zoellick

#Cake Quotes #Growth Quotes #Development Quotes

“She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.”
“I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.”
“Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.”
“Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law”

Source : Godel, Escher, Bach ch. 5 (1979)
“I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.”
“You know what’s really good is a greyhound in the shower.”
“Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (2008). “We Meet”, p.102, New Directions Publishing
“We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.”

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