“Many of our health problems challenges cannot be solved within one specific border. In the old days, we had 'tropical medicine' which was a colonial approach. This led to international-health during the cold-wars which simply meant the health of those far away. Now we have the concept of 'global health' which reflects the globalisation of the world.”
— Baron Peter Piot
Co-discoverer of Ebola virus & Global Health Leader

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Psychology

A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.

If you're trying to fake that and compete with somebody who does it naturally, good luck.

— Dave Plummer

I was not looking for an excuse, but it served as a great explanation for a lot of things.

— Dave Plummer

I always knew I was different, but I didn't think I was wrong.

— Dave Plummer

The original sin of artificial intimacy is the use of the first person, because that's the hook. It makes you feel that there's a there there when there's no there there, and there's no one who cares about you.

— Sherry Turkle

We are in this spot not just because the chatbots are so attractive, but because we have abandoned each other.

— Sherry Turkle

Social media came after their attention. This is coming after their attachment.

— Sherry Turkle

Therapy is not words being told, people saying words at you that sound like the right words. Therapy is a relationship with someone who cares about you.

— Sherry Turkle

There's no intimacy without vulnerability, and there's no relationship without friction, because the whole point of a relationship is that you're not the same as the other person, and you don't have to be.

— Sherry Turkle

We are so seduced by that pretend empathy that sometimes we start to think that it's empathy enough.

— Sherry Turkle

If I could capture in my work the difference between talking to a chatbot and what it felt like to open the door and have this woman come in with Mexican food, I would have won my argument.

— Sherry Turkle

The thing about luck is that you have to have the skill to recognise it. Because we all have fortunate circumstances in front of us, but sometimes we don't see them.

— Carlos Gutierrez

I did sacrifice everything else. In my mind, it's part of the price you pay. They say some people find their self-esteem in different places. I found my self-esteem in work.

— Carlos Gutierrez

There's a sense I picked up from the Cuba experience that if you're not struggling, you're not really working. Life is a struggle. Don't be surprised. It's never going to be easy.

— Carlos Gutierrez

Hyperfocus, for me, is so strong and so intense that the odds of being successful in that specific task go up substantially, because you're thinking about it twenty-four hours a day. Most people don't do that.

— Carlos Gutierrez