Men are cheaper than shingles.
— Anonymous Employer“Seeing the earth from space was just breathtaking – I cannot imagine anywhere being more beautiful, we're living on an absolute paradise. Seeing our planet from that vantage point also changed my perspective on the concept of home. I used to think of myself as a New Yorker, as an America, but now? I'm a citizen of earth first and still all those things. Now, when I think of home, I think of the earth.”— Mike Massimino
Astronaut and educator who conducted spacewalks on the Hubble Space Telescope
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Connection 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
The printing press helped democratise Europe by providing space for discussion and agreement among politically engaged citizens, often before the state had fully democratised.
— Jurgen HabermasGerman Philosopher & Social Theorist; Developed Theory of Communicative Action
New media conducive to fostering participation can indeed increase freedoms… just as the printing press, the postal service, the telegraph and the telephone did before.
— Clay ShirkyInternet theorist & author on cognitive surplus and social media's impact.
We don't need to have CNN, NBC and their counterparts. Anybody can report on the most important news of the day. The best example recently was the video circulated of that young girl who got killed in Iran; that had an unbelievable impact on our knowledge of what was going on in that country.
— Gigi SohnFCC Nominee and Net Neutrality Advocate
It's not just the internet which is contributing to these changes, its mobile and digital technology generally, it makes everyone a journalist. This is why the internet has blown apart the notion of journalism, because it gets rid of the gatekeepers.
— Gigi SohnFCC Nominee and Net Neutrality Advocate
The internet has had a tremendous positive impact because it's the most democratised and decentralised medium ever known. Along comes the internet, and it changes all that, it puts the power of communication in everyone's hand, at least everyone who can afford access.
— Gigi SohnFCC Nominee and Net Neutrality Advocate
In a highly emotive and risk-averse market, rationality seems to fall by the wayside, with investors trigger-happy to pull immense volumes of liquidity out of assets at the earliest risk warning.
— Not AvailablePolitically and practically, the Euro Zone nations cannot be seen to bail-out Greece. Not only would this set a potentially dangerous precedent, but it could also affect the overall financial stability of the system itself.
— Not AvailableOur nations cannot exist independently, we are intrinsically linked to the global economy, and another-nations problems will, invariably, affect us.
— Not AvailableThe USD is the world's most liquid currency, used as the tool of choice for global finance. It is for that reason that we, as observers, must pay great attention to policy changes such as this.
— Not specified