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William Butler Yates wrote, “There is no singing school, but studying monuments of its own magnificence.”
We use our own body to make poetry. There is no fiddle, there is no paint, it’s the air that comes out of your body shaped in ways that have evolved and that are controlled by our brain.
Cloud filmmaking is the exciting collaboration of artists and citizens and people who just want to make something together.
I feel women really need to be running their own companies so they can set new ground rules for how you can be a mother, a good mother and also participate in society.
The Web is about collaboration. The web is about empathy. The web is about multitasking. These are all qualities that women are very good at.
Present clear, crisp evidence that people can believe about whether an idea is working.
Get straight to the criticism, but express it very positively: “Wouldn’t it be even better if we did X, wouldn’t it be even better if we did Y?”
We can make a choice to say “I love this technology, this extension of my soul, of my being and I don’t need to be on all the time.”
We haven’t fundamentally made work something different than it is, but we’ve really got people to rethink how they’re doing the work itself.
One hundred years ago, your doctor was responsible for your health. Now, thanks to technology, we’re at the point where we can all be the CEO of our own health.
Music is not always the compliant hand servant, the maid servant of text. It can operate according to its own rules and it can function quite differently.
Francis Collins: we need to be prepared at any moment to defend the choices we’ve made as having had the best chance of benefiting real people out there who are counting on the NIH to use their money wisely.
I came to the full realization that there is no formula for life. And a perfect job, a house, a business or a spouse is an illusion of our mind trying to bring order to a life that has none.
What people often don’t tell you before you get to work is how important all of those things that aren’t part of our job description are.
Analytical thinking is not so hot at creating something that does not now exist. Intuitive thinking is not so hot at keeping the trains running. And so you need a combination of those two things.
“Today I’m going to work on my water machine to supply clean water to 4 billion people.” Dean Kamen wouldn’t be able to say that unless he happened to be an eternal optimist.
Experiments with people wearing blindfolds demonstrated that “what we normally perceive of as sight is really as much a function of our brains as our eyes,” says one researcher.
Science gets things right and it takes a long time and it takes a lot of chatter to get there.
I don’t think we’ve conceptualized yet well enough how the brain gets its job done to abstract all of that activity in our brain into meaningful units to which we can then think about how to move those around to build a brain.
No wonder we only have a couple of kids, rather than 10 or 12.
Someone is always getting killed. Someone is always getting assassinated. But there are also good things that happen in Afghanistan.
Most families nowadays have no alternative but to allow their women, their daughters, wives and so forth to go out to the workforce.
Businesses are reaching the limits of what they can squeeze out of a downsized workforce.
Complexity theory is about adaptive systems that teeter on the edge of chaos.
Niall Ferguson: going on a world tour and seeing which systems do the best job seems like a pretty good starting place to me.
One of the markers of a fast growing company is you constantly have to reevaluate everything.
Dolley Madison was extremely controversial during the years of the Founding Fathers.
We can’t restrict adult reading habits to what is fit for children. We’ll have nothing but Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood.
Larry Flynt: We’ve got to start leaving people alone unless they’re violating the law.