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If creativity and optimism are childish fancies, bring it on. The adult world needs more of that. 

Sometimes we read meaning into patterns even when there is not inherent meaning. Yet it’s possible to use rationality and to use things that you know about the world to question your intuitions and to second guess them. 

We are searching for the medium that allows people to both learn and teach.

Gloria Feldt: I have my religious beliefs too and they tell me that using birth control is a good thing and that birth control is basic healthcare that should be part of any insurance plan.

Free always wins over something that costs something.

Whether we are looking at climate change, whether we are looking at AIDS, whether we are looking at war and conflict, the stem of it comes into making sure that people are educated.

Brain decoding is the technique by which neuroscientists are able to decipher what a person is experiencing during a dream. 

We need to be inspired by fiction in order for our imagination to develop pathways to solving problems. 

I think that Steve Jobs was brilliant.  I think that he was an amazing risk taker, but I also think heroes are overrated. 

I think that it’s great to inspire new generations of thinkers; it’s terrible to create new authority. 

If you look at advanced manufacturing processes today, they actually require a much higher level of skill and sophistication in your workforce than I think many of us realize.

If you’re stuck at your job, there’s so many different options.  For instance, you can turn your passion into a new position.

To be successful in today’s economy, you have to be accountable for your own career and take charge of your own life. 

What if the NSA scandals result in a more fragmented global Internet? What if they are used as an excuse by repressive regimes to violate their own citizens’ privacy?

In the United States we have shamefully convinced most high school students that they either need to go to Harvard or they need to go to McDonald’s.

Ask each person individually who benefits more from the relationship. 

71 percent of employers choose emotional intelligence over IQ.

Insurance is what you buy when you don’t know if something bad is going to happen. Maybe I’ll crash my car. Maybe I won’t. I don’t know. So I’m going […]

Rote knowledge is worth less and less than it was before. And so we need an education system that challenges students at all levels, particularly as they get a little older to think about problem solving skills, to be able to be broader in their base of education.

I always wanted to push the boundaries.  There was always a ‘why.’  So if somebody gave me an answer, I wanted to know why that was so. 

Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.

University of Rochester scientists discovered that during sleep, the space between brain cells widens, allowing additional cerebrospinal fluid to flush out toxic molecules. Some of these have been linked to neurodegenerative diseases.

There’s a danger to learning about cognitive biases and logical fallacies and so on which is that you end up with this tool kit of ways to reject other people’s arguments.

It wasn’t until I was forced as an exchange student in Japan – my first time abroad – to learn Japanese using comic books and judo textbooks because I had no choice.

Don’t stop at the first explanation that occurs to you, ask your inner rivals what competing explanations they can come up with.

It’s important to challenge “good enough” explanations.

People are not so open to new ideas that they’re running around stealing them. 

Where do new ideas come from? One tactic is to train your brain to innovate through the use of thought experiments.

Everybody knows how to stay inside their silo.  It takes the courageous soul to cross those boundaries. 

We’re at a pivotal moment and our decisions today really could make a difference for thousands of years.