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Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. -- John Doolittle
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. -- Timothy Garton Ash
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. -- Ben Bernanke
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. -- Stephen Hawking
Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet. -- Oscar de la Renta
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. -- Bela Bartok
The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010. -- Stephen Kinzer
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. -- George Washington Carver
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. -- Lawrence Summers
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities. -- Ben Bernanke
In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend. -- Emily Greene Balch
The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step. -- Vladimir Putin
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns. -- Ban Ki-moon
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. -- Anais Nin
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. -- Steven Pinker
The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay! -- Irma S. Rombauer
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. -- Alexander Graham Bell
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' -- Vince Cable
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. -- David Hilbert
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. -- Fareed Zakaria
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. -- Martin Filler
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. -- Bill Gates
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. -- Virginia Postrel
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. -- Bill Gates
I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome. -- Nick Rhodes
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The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns. -- Jon Spaihts
I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology. -- John Pople
It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments. -- George Papandreou
Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture. -- Kode9
Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments. -- Jim Leach
It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions. -- Oscar Wilde
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. -- Neil Armstrong
I'm glad you're here. We've had some...interesting developments." Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger. -- Maria V. Snyder
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch. -- Alan Guth
I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments. -- Noam Chomsky
In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance. -- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments. -- Fritz Sauckel
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums -- Tim Yeo
I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments. -- Hari Kunzru
Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. -- Herbert Boyer
We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties. -- Stafford Cripps
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. -- Christopher Lasch
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. -- Ruth Benedict
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. -- Peter Singer
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. -- Carroll Quigley
Every informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the worldâ??s most important developments. -- Leon Louw
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. -- Bob Goodlatte
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. -- Thom Mayne
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly. -- George Coyne
I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family. -- Urban Meyer
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. -- Robert Smithson
Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs. -- Bradley A. Smith
I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story. -- John Waters
That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments. -- Colin Angle
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must! -- Sarah
New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war. -- Herman Kahn
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics. -- Brian Greene
People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective. -- Boyd Rice
I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear. -- Bertrand Meyer
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being -- John Kenneth Galbraith
End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them. -- Matt Haig
We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy. -- Jerry A. Coyne
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives. -- Paul Achleitner
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments. -- Stanley Schmidt
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments. -- Horace Mann
The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market. -- Clayton Christensen
There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments. -- Donald Trump
Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development -- Donald Bradman
Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments. -- John Patrick
We are facing a whole collection of crisis-like developments that we have to watch closely. But we also have to be careful what we point to as crisis indicators. -- Wolfgang Schauble
I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest. -- Edward Snowden
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years. -- Linus Pauling
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. -- Christian Lous Lange
Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them. -- Paul Feyerabend
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy. -- Alex Carey
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. -- Vinton Cerf
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. -- Vinton Cerf
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. -- Werner Heisenberg
Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur. -- N. K. Jemisin
The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War. -- Aleister Crowley
Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future. -- Jurgen Habermas
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results. -- Aaron Klug
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore. -- Janet Echelman
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. -- William Graham Sumner
What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness. -- Clarence Francis
All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed. -- Stephen F. Hayes
Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region. -- Ali Abdullah Saleh
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science. -- Charles Babbage
One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic. -- Mickey Kaus
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. -- Albert Camus
So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear. -- Andreas Katsulas
It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantitÃ© negligeable. -- Carl Jung
One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States, which is, once again, the dominant player in the most advanced semiconductor product-markets. -- Peter Dicken
I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity. -- Ray Dolby

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