Piotr Smolnicki

“quoting John Howard from MIT, “It does not belittle them to say that, just as war is too important to be left to the generals, so highways are too important to leave to the highway engineers.”
― Samuel I. Schwartz, Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

“What this means in road (and bridge, and tunnel) building is not just obvious but as well documented as anything in transportation engineering: “If you build it, they will come.” If you build more lanes on the expressway, more cars and trucks will use it. If you’re lucky, congestion remains as bad as it was before you spent $50 million trying to relieve it; if you’re not, it gets worse.”
― Samuel I. Schwartz, Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

“There’s little need to invest in the comprehensive instrumentation of the urban fabric with sensors, device controllers or informational displays when people themselves are already equipped with something that can act in all of these roles.”
― Adam Greenfield, Against the smart city

“As theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858–1947) noted, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Anonymous