Quotes About Smart Cities

#1. We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.

William J. Mitchell

#2. Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance.

Eduardo Paes

#3. You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.

LeRoy Neiman

#4. People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up

Maureen Johnson

#5. I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. In God, there is no lack and no recession.

Marianne Williamson

#7. The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

Will Advise

#8. It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

Billy Sheehan

#9. The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.

Dylan Lauren

#10. This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

Bob Graham

#11. The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Narendra Modi

#13. I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

James Whistler

#14. Money isn't like mushrooms in a forest - it doesn't just pop up on its own, you know.

Haruki Murakami

#15. The general public has failed to realize that the USA government has built a High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in most cities with the mass deployment of smart radio frequency transmitting utility meters.

Steven Magee

#16. I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

Pim Fortuyn

#17. Be who you were born to be - it's what living things do.

John Avery

#18. The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

Eliot Engel

#19. For a summer of drug abuse on the island of Capri, she packed a wardrobe of black Morticia gowns, dyed her hair green, and paraded through the village streets with a crystal ball, followed by a retainer in gold body paint.

Scot D. Ryersson