For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.
Ethan Zuckerman
PowerTimeRoadsSmartPlantsLong
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.
Charles Hazlewood
LifeMusicTimeRoadsFireMe
Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
Bill Lipinski
MoneyRoadsBridgeLongGoWay
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
Sarah Jessica Parker
RoadsMistakesChoicesManyDetours
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
Paul Eldridge
RoadsNewBuildStonesCastThem
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.
Margot Lee Shetterly
RoadsJobWarPeopleWorldYou
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.
Jill Lepore
BusinessRoadsPoliceMedicine
And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.
Kathy Freston
RoadsDayAmericanWeekYearOut
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
John Blair
RoadsSocialismEndDownGoDead
I think it's really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently... have a life. Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.
Carol Vorderman
LifeFriendRoadsWalkThinkYou
The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment.
Robert Rinder
RoadsMatterEmbarrassmentOurSome
One always wonders about roads not taken.
Warren Christopher
RoadsAlwaysWondersTakenAbout
I don't fund county roads.
Jeff Fortenberry
RoadsFundCounty
I do not like toll roads. Taxpayers are already paying for those roads through their gas taxes, and then to turn around and tell them they need to pay more to drive on the roads, I don't like it.
Sam Graves
RoadsDriveMoreNeedTaxesTurn
I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.
Amisha Patel
RoadsPeopleMeWorkingEvenThose
People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
P. Chidambaram
GoodMoneyRoadsPeopleGrowBetter
Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.
Steven Pinker
RoadsFinancialBetterMoreKingdom
I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.
Larry Hogan
RoadsBuildingBridgesTransportation
I go back to a very specific aspect of the Midwest - small towns surrounded by farmland. They make a good stage for what I like to write about, i.e., roads and houses, bridges and rivers and weather and woods, and people to whom strange or interesting things happen, causing problems they must overcome.
Tom Drury
GoodRoadsPeopleWeatherSmall
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
HappinessRoadsPeopleRoadLost
Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.
Roseanne Barr
WomenRoadsMenSeedsStrongHelp
In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
Dana Rohrabacher
RoadsBeachBridgesAmericanLong
Roads are not practical in Africa.
Mo Ibrahim
RoadsAfricaPractical
For any good course, you need somewhere beautiful to swim with a nice backdrop, some nice roads to cycle on, and a nice, fast run.
Jonathan Brownlee
GoodBeautifulRoadsYouNiceRun
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