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Business at it’s best it can be an engine of the kind of change that we all want to help us live better lives. 

Aron Cramer: Business is the creative force in society that can help us find ways to make our lives better. If business doesn’t take up the challenge, I think we all have quite a lot to lose. 

The things you really appreciate aren’t the complicated things.   They’re the simple things that work just the way you expect them to. 

There are seven billion of us now and contrary to the evening news we all get along, kind of.

Michael Gazzaniga: Scientists we sometimes get annoyed with, but not science.

Malcolm Gladwell: I don’t know why we run from explanations of success that include a healthy dose of serendipity.

Michael Gazzaniga: Why does the human always seem to like fiction? Could it be that it prepares us for unexpected things that happen in our life? 

People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]

There’s an innate drive to move to cities, where people are more clustered. The frequency for interactions is so much higher in a city as opposed to a rural area. […]

You’ve got to hope somehow that presidents understand that the bully pulpit is still a tool that they possess.

As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you’re a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.

You’re trying to really pit your wits against history, but we’re all in that situation.

An awful lot of innovation is based on the remixing of existing ideas and sometimes adding a little bit new as well. 

I can’t tell individuals at the point of collection what I’m going to use the data for.  And therefore I can’t ask them to consent to that because there’s nothing to consent if I don’t know what I’m using it for.

Your brain learns to block out the noises that it hears all the time.

The moral philosopher John Rawls, whose theory of distributive justice will likely get mentioned at some point in discussions about the end of the filibuster for presidential nominations, would likely sit back and belly laugh at the change in these rules.  He might laugh because he could be of the opinion that it is long overdue.

Ready. Set. Go: dark matter in one minute. 

It is no secret that the late rock musician Kurt Cobain felt alienated growing up. But a recently released animated video, which illustrates a lost interview he gave in 1993, reveals surprising insights about the rage he felt as a teenager and how he came to express it in punk rock. 

Raghava KK: When I have children I’m going to promise to bias them with as many perspectives as possible as opposed to just biasing them with my little understanding of the world. 

Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM’s Watson, however, changed all of that.

Learning facts and figures are going to be best done by technology feeding them to you the way you want to hear them, when you want to hear them. 

Jeff DeGraff: As a rule of thumb I like to tell people you have to be very open and an innovation usually takes you three times as long and at least twice the amount of money you thought it would. 

Bridges do collapse.  Products do blow up.  Drugs that save millions of people’s lives often in the development stage kill people. This is something that you have to be very honest about. 

Scientific mediation is designed to bring out the nonscientific biases that lead scientists to opposite conclusions based on the same scientific knowledge. 

We create this bubble around ourselves where we reinforce the beliefs that we have, the views that we have in a world that’s rapidly changing.

While jazz is a uniquely American invention that created rhythms from scratch, Quincy Jones says the genius of the art form can also be found in its appropriation of classical instruments.

Innovation is different because it’s the only form of value that happens in the future for which we have no real data. 

Women have at least 50 percent of buying power in households and I think it’s natural and essential that businesses have women on their boards. 

Megan Smith talks about the role technologies like mobile and the Internet play in giving a voice to billions of people who up until this point had none.

There are potentially a lot more discoveries to be made within our oceans, with as little as 5% of it explored so far.