"We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers."

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Source : "The Human Element: Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer on Designing Global Health". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

Paul Farmer

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Design Quotes

“Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.”
“Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.”
“Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.”
“I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.”
“You don't manage priorities, you have them.”
“I think we agree, the past is over.”

Source : "Subdued McCain Endorses Bush". David Jackson and Wayne Slater, The Dallas Morning News (May 10, 2000), as quoted in "Make the Pie Higher!", www.snopes.com. July 22, 2008.
“I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind.”

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