Quotes About Infrastructure

In many ways, we are the city that the New Deal built. Because that's who built all of our infrastructure. Before that, we were a hardscrabble town.

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

There are more people now with wireless connections than with flush toilets, according to the United Nations (2013).

Think of the cardiovascular system as a highway system. If roadways are the infrastructure of the city, the conduits that get us from here to there, then our circulatory system is the infrastructure of our bodies. Our blood vessels carry nutrients and oxygen to our cells and then carry carbon dioxide and other by-products away from our cells.

The London Underground

demonstrate that taxing rent re-captures for society the natural resource patrimony and rising site value. This rental valuation is created not by landlord efforts but by society's overall prosperity and public investment in transportation systems, schools and other infrastructure that define "location, location and location.

The aim of predatory lending in much of the world is to obtain labor to work off debts (debt peonage), to foreclose on the land of debtors, and in modern times to force debt-strapped governments to privatize natural resources and public infrastructure.

free market required public regulation to keep predatory finance and rent seeking in check, and to keep basic infastructure in the public domain.

the Progressive Era's program of taxing rentier wealth and subsidizing public investment in basic infrastructure with a view toward lowering the cost of living and doing business. In a word, the "modern" economy a century ago was supposed to be socialist. Today's economy is moving in the opposite direction: toward a financialized neofeudalism and rent seeking, by spreading the politically soporific impression that There Is No Alternative.

One idea Daniel proposed was unusual: The United States and NATO should publicly announce a giant "cyber exercise" against a mythical Eurasian country, demonstrating that Western nations had it within their power to shut down Russia's entire civil infrastructure and cripple its economy.

What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'

De stad heeft zo'n 2100 kilometer riool... Ongeveer 1300 mijl. Maar maak je geen zorgen. Verdwalen zullen we niet. De meeste hebben hun eigen straatnaambord. - Machiavelli, over Parijs

il y a dans les villes deux fonctions, l'une primaire d'habitation, l'autre secondaire de circulation, et on voit aujourd'hui partout l'habitation méprisée, sacrifiée à la circulation, de telle sorte que nos villes, privées d'arbres, de fontaines, de marchés, de berges, pour être de plus en plus «circulables», deviennent de moins en moins habitables.

A recent Chicago study, for example, has shown that it costs $60,000 to hook up a new house in an outer suburb to the utility infrastructure as against $5,000 for the same house in an existing suburb. "Who foots the bill? Taxpayers in the established suburbs."72

Everything behind the walls is the most important, everything else is a bonus.

Infrastructure as Code." If you're going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

Just as individuals need food and drinks to survive, so is the society in need of decent roads and good education!

The importance of roads is not a small matter in any state that's seeking for development both economically and politically.

The state can't seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?

It's not just an easy one-liner. The state can't seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?

Any complex technology is the product of many antecedents. Destroy the infrastructure of a society supporting such technology and, though the knowledge itself might not be lost, the society would lose the basis on which the tech was built. Members of a human civilization bombed back into the Stone Age are hardly going to be able to build computers from flint and wood.

Getting through Lake Tahoe was already like L.A., with construction all over the place