"The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a……" — Geoff Mulgan
"The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen."
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77 Quotes by Geoff Mulgan
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Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real…
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Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.
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One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas…
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The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.
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The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to…
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I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If…
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Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write…
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Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much…
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In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no…
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Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in…
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On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much…
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats;…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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