It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.
Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.
We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
