Quotes About Infrastructure

You can do business with America or the authoritarian dictators of Beijing, who oppress their own people, put millions of Muslims in concentration camps, and are rolling out a new and insidious colonialism around the world with their rapacious belt and road infrastructure program. Which side are you on, Britain? Canada? The EU? You choose.

When a road is made, we can't say only the Hindus will walk on it, if a road is being construction, both Hindus and Muslims will walk on it.

As a logistics entrepreneur who has created hundreds of American jobs, I will make sure the National Highway bill improves our infrastructure, while ensuring that products used and jobs created from this legislation are made in the U.S.A.

I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

Investment in public infrastructure is key to America's greatness and essential to our national security.

Spyglasses, as Lipperhey called telescopes, whether they're in the form of spotting scopes, spyplanes, or reconnaissance satellites, are more than simple instruments or tools. They beget infrastructures and geographies.

Have you ever wondered why in the last century all the great metropolises hastened to build subways?" "To solve traffic problems?" "Before there were automobiles, when there were only horse-drawn carriages? From

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

Hydrolectricity is the largest modern non-fossil source of primary energy; the combination of relatively low cost, high suitability to cover peak demand, and the multi-purpose nature of most large reservoirs (they serve as sources of irrigation and drinking water, a protection against downstream flooding, recreation sites, and, increasingly, places for aquacultural production) should make it one of the most desirable choices in a world moving away from fossil fuels.

four pillars of modern civilization: ammonia, steel, concrete, and plastics.

The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.

La historia de las ciudades se refleja en sus cloacas.

chilangos tend to throw their used toilet paper into wastebaskets instead of flushing them down the drain to keep from clogging up the pipes, and this shit-smeared paper winds up in the city dumps and eventually it too goes airborne.

Mexico City has been ranked amongst the worst cities in the world in terms of urban planning,

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

For urban systems, growth rate is a fast variable, governance is a medium variable, and infrastructure is a slow variable, with slow variables ultimately determining the resilience of a system (Allen and Holling 2008).

All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.

of bandwidth and other infrastructure far from universally available as well as issues of censorship in

At Duke University, our infrastructure comes from the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the John

Buses implement either circuit-switched or packet-switched protocols.

Sure, you can raise your speed limit to 80, but we'll just hold on to that highway grant money next year. The states almost always cave; they can't afford not to.

Commercial and infrastructure investment by Chinese firms, meanwhile, has increased the visibility of the People's Republic throughout the Levant and North Africa.

The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that the United States would have to spend $3.6 trillion more than currently budgeted just to bring our infrastructure up to acceptable levels by 2020.95 China and India are spending almost 10 percent of GDP on infrastructure; Europe, around 5 percent.96 Even Mexico spends just over 3 percent.97 The United States has not broken 3 percent once since the mid-1970s.98

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.