Seventeen of the top twenty universities in the world are in the USA, one third of all students who leave their countries to study in another come to the USA.
— Marc ChandlerChief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex
“Instead of militaries fighting militaries, we now have militaries or military motivated agents that are able to activate civilians in each other's countries. Social media is global national security threat, and one that we're not even spending billions of dollars to protect against.”— Tristan Harris
Design ethicist & founder of Center for Humane Technology
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I don't have to outrun the Tiger, I just have to outrun you. When you look at many of the financial centres such as The City of London, Wall St, and their counterparts, they think of things in Economic terms.
— Marc ChandlerChief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex
There is a big black box of as-yet unimagined risk. Most of what now seem like the biggest risks to society were unknown one hundred years ago.
— Nick BostromPhilosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford
At some point, if this kind of technological progress continues, it would seem that our descendants will become entirely digital: uploads or artificial intellects implemented on computers.
— Nick BostromPhilosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford
Right now, biological evolution is not the main engine of change in the human condition. Instead, social and technological development, which occur on shorter timescales, are the predominant change-makers.
— Nick BostromPhilosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford
Among future technologies that may pose significant existential risks I would rank machine super intelligence at or near the top.
— Nick BostromPhilosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford
In my view, all the big existential risks are anthropogenic, arising out of human activity. More specifically, the biggest existential risks in this century arise out of anticipated future technological advances.
— Nick BostromPhilosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford
The average American worker was subject to danger every bit as great as soldiers in war.
— President HarrisonWhen dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
— Dale CarnegieAuthor of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" & Self-Help Pioneer
Men are cheaper than shingles.
— Anonymous EmployerConnection is why we're here. It gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The ability to feel connected is neurobiologically wired into us.
— Brene BrownResearcher & Author on Vulnerability, Shame, and Leadership
These policies are, in the long term, very dangerous for productivity, growth, entrepreneurial spirit and wealth generation and will create further issues within the developed economies.
— John BrynjolfssonUnknown.
The developed world actually has worse demographics when looking at competitiveness and systemic issues, and has a lot of work to do in order to shore up financial systems.
— John BrynjolfssonUnknown.
The policies they prescribe are a continuation or exaggeration of the previous policies that created the structural problems in the first place.
— John BrynjolfssonUnknown.
This problem originated in the most sophisticated and advanced financial markets because those are the markets where leverage was the greatest and people took the most advantage of it.
— John BrynjolfssonUnknown.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
— Walter CronkiteLegendary CBS News Anchor & "Most Trusted Man in America