Geoff Mulgan Quotes

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• Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of…
• Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.
• One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the…
• The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.
• The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of…
• I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the…
• Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not…
• Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such…
• In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and…
• Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of…
• On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically,…
• Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice…
• So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises.…
• Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways…
• The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly…
• The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV.…
• There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do…
• There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of…
• L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at…
• The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to…

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