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Technology makes some conversations seem pointless, boring.

Leibniz complained in the seventeenth century about the horrible mass of books that was overwhelming Europe and he said threatened a return to barbarism. 

A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. 

Time shrinks retrospectively.

Estimates are that a third of the prison population has mental illness. 

The ultimatum game is the ultimate test of fairness, and chimpanzees passed the test by going for the fair options.  

There is a new cultural player on the scene called the idea entrepreneur who have the ability to influence how people think and affect how people behave.

Ideas pop up and are subjected to a Darwinian fitness test.

Fordism, engineered assembly line production that stresses the integration of man and machine for the purpose of increased efficiency of production, stands out as one of America’s greatest ideas. 

I think the test of a truly intelligent machine is if you really had an intelligent machine, it would not reveal it’s intelligence to us. 

What does this phrase even possibly mean?

There’s a million apps out there, and if you look through all of them they’re doing remarkable things. 

The world has a hole in it that is shaped just like you and it needs your voice to fill that hole.  

I think if you’re the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it’s in how you interact with the world. 

Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside. 

If the Bible got slavery wrong, something as easy and obvious, a moral outrage, the odds that the Bible got something as complicated as human sexuality wrong is pretty high.

The people who waved their American flags and shout about patriotism and at the same time don’t want immigrants to come across our borders or are concerned about illegal immigrants have missed the entire point of America.

If you were really concerned about expenditures on entitlements, you would take people whose families have lived here for a very long time and weren’t being economically productive and you would deport them.

There are also outliers like me who would choose to have female children or gay children and would balance things out.

The internet is no longer an alternative to real life, it’s a tool for arranging it.  And at that moment, we lost something that we used to call personal life.  

Clay Shirky: If we end up forestalling or shutting down one way or another the open Internet in the name of you keeping Hollywood safe, or fighting off viruses, I think it will be a huge loss for humankind. 

Norms take time to catch up to technology, but they are all the regulation we need.

Don’t lament change, find the opportunity in it.

By creating ideas, humans achieve immortality.

In this darkly hilarious outtake from his interview for Big Think Mentor, Neil deGrasse Tyson – astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium – warns that the universe is homicidal […]

We have a responsibility to defend the America that we inherited and to make sure that people calling themselves patriots don’t smash it down. 

Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control.

We often personalize our points of view or our ideas and there are people around us that want to aggressively poke at us.

For six years, Nicholas Merrill wasn’t allowed to say who he was.

In the 1960’s, John Crowe Ransom looked back at the post Civil War South, and discussed how at the time the South was Reconstructed and Unregenerate. The South had just […]