“I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish “development priorities” — which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.”

—  John James Cowperthwaite

March 27, 1968, page 212.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

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