Search Results

If you can think of a human activity or occupation, there will be people who love it and live for it and others who couldn’t bear it. 

Get straight to the criticism, but express it very positively: “Wouldn’t it be even better if we did X, wouldn’t it be even better if we did Y?” 

We need to push decision making authority as far down the organization as possible. Then people can try new things.

We’re at a pivotal moment and our decisions today really could make a difference for thousands of years.

We are searching for the medium that allows people to both learn and teach.

Buy from a double A rated insurance company, a lifetime annuity, that will pay you for as long as you live. 

Our problems have gotten worse and they’re getting worse faster and faster because that’s the nature of exponential growth.

You need to view business growth as a journey and not a destination, and that mindset if very helpful.

To be successful in today’s economy, you have to be accountable for your own career and take charge of your own life. 

Learn about a method for making targeted commitments that succeeded virtually every time.

Ask each person individually who benefits more from the relationship. 

Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM’s Watson, however,  changed all of that. 

I would not want to look forward to a culture where science lost and religious faith became the dominating force for truth.  I would not want to live in a culture where faith lost and science, with all of its reductionism and its materialism became the sole source of truth. 

Learning facts and figures are going to be best done by technology feeding them to you the way you want to hear them, when you want to hear them. 

The most important part of life is work, it’s the flow, it’s getting stuff done, feeling like you’re doing something.  We have that in spades.  We’re really, really happy. 

The world has a lot of is deep areas of expertise; what the world lacks today is agility and context. 

Raghava KK: When I have children I’m going to promise to bias them with as many perspectives as possible as opposed to just biasing them with my little understanding of the world. 

Bill Nye: I don’t think U.S. students are lazy. 

For whatever reason being in nature helps people become better at problem solving.

Dolley Madison was extremely controversial during the years of the Founding Fathers.

What people often don’t tell you before you get to work is how important all of those things that aren’t part of our job description are. 

If you want to give yourself the best chance of landing a job, be assertive and follow up. Adopting a strategy for keeping the line of communication open is easier than you may think.

You’ll frequently hear people say “the science is settled.” Scientifically speaking, can it ever be? “All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to […]

And — if you aren’t — why you should be watching. “The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” –Carl Sagan I’ve already told […]

The brightest “planetary nebula” is actually a Sun-like star in its final death throes! “When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face […]

People are not so open to new ideas that they’re running around stealing them. 

Whether we are looking at climate change, whether we are looking at AIDS, whether we are looking at war and conflict, the stem of it comes into making sure that people are educated.

Scientific advances are coming fast and furious, and so it is becoming increasingly important to become familiar with aspects of genomics that will impact routine medical care in profound ways.    

I always wanted to push the boundaries.  There was always a ‘why.’  So if somebody gave me an answer, I wanted to know why that was so. 

That painting is not complete until the viewer responds to it.