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KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURER AND TECHNOLOGY EXPLORER
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4/30/2010 10:51:00 PM
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"Ultimately, the location of the new economy is not in technology, be it a microchip or a global communications network, but in the human mind."
"Singaporeans must run even faster, to stay ahead of the competition coming from neighbouring countries & emerging economies. It is a marathon & we have to run fast & run without end."
"When it comes to making judgements on matters connected with the human condition in their numerous forms as seen in their social, political or economic manifestations, there is no substitute for the human brain to distill concepts from experience & then subjecting these to critical analyses."
"We must learn to do things today with tomorrow very clearly in our minds."(S Rajaratnam, one of Singapore's founding fathers, first Foreign Minister & former Senior Minister)
"Look, whenever you embark on anything, please tell me what is your objective. And there must be one. I don't want five. Just give me the principal objective. If you like, you can give me the ancillary objectives. But the principal objective must be clearly stated because later, as we go along, there will be tendencies to fudge. I don't want the principal objective to be fudged."(J Y Pillay, former Chairman of Singapore Airlines, who has often being credited for building the airline to what it is today, drawing a management parallel from the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu scripture, written 2,600 years ago.)
"More than ever our ability to succeed will depend on the adaptiveness & ingenuity of our people. What will matter will be the ability to think creatively & learn continuously, to generate new ideas & apply them quickly."(Goh Chok Tong, former Prime Minister & now Senior Minister, at the Teachers' Rally, World Trade Centre, September 1996.)
"The survival requires you to change. If you don't change, then you are marginalised & you will become extinct."
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