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" Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. "

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" Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. "

" I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. "

" Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling. "

Henrique Capriles Radonski

" The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. "

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. "

" The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. "

" For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. "

" Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. "

" The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. "

" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. "

" I cannot live without books. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in. "

" The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. "

" Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. "

" Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility. "

" I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. "

" Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. "

" I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. "

" I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! "

" We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind. "

" Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.' "

" Education, for me, has helped me in my music. "

" I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. "

" The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. "

" Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things. "

Moza bint Nasser

" The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. "