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- Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense…
- Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
- One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern…
- It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in President Obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for…
- Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and…
- It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime…
- Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on…
- The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in…
- What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment…
- The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle