The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be…

... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of…

— William Vickrey

Young people hold great promise for our country's future economic and social well being.

— Neil Bush

Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace…

— Carl Guardino

The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect…

— Carl Guardino

High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and…

— Carl Guardino

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things…

— Doutzen Kroes

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest…

— Jaime Lerner

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the…

— Isaac Asimov

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

— Emily Dickinson

'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like…

— Albert Allen Bartlett

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

— Ed McMahon

I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he…

— Douglas Malloch

The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined.

— Elizabeth Bowen