When one deals with urban issues, one never deals with…

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election…

— Jack Germond

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

— Carlos Ghosn

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy…

— Clay Shirky

In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but…

— Ma Yansong

International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension…

— Ian Bremmer

Like so many other young South Asians in America, I am the product of two cultures whose conflicting values pull at me with equal…

— Sabaa Tahir

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.

— Louis B. Rosenberg

Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of…

— Warren Farrell

Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy…

— Patricia Churchland

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least…

— Thomas Sowell

I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both.

— Hillary Clinton

You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the…

— Bill Gates

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area.…

— Judy Woodruff

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

— Michael Pollan