All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.
Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.
Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion, too.
We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit.
Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.
I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.
I was - the last protest I was at was in Genoa, where I got tear gassed, and I hate tear gas, and I hate being in crowds.
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.
By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
The only way all people can have the opportunity to choose or reject the gospel of Jesus Christ is for us, without judgment, to invite them to follow the Savior.
I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
