“There are very few African-American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me... And there are very few African-American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars.”— Barack Obama
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A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.
Lack of sleep is like a broken water pipe in your home, it leaks water into every nook and cranny, and erodes the fabric of your DNA nucleic alphabet that spells out your daily health narrative.
— Matthew WalkerSleep scientist and author of "Why We Sleep
Limiting sleep to just 4-5 hours for one single night will drop levels of critical anti-cancer fighting cells, called natural killer cells, by 70%. That's a rather alarming state of immune deficiency, and it happens after just one night of short sleep.
— Matthew WalkerSleep scientist and author of "Why We Sleep
Every single process in the body, and every operation of the brain, is powerfully enhanced when we get sleep, and demonstrably impaired when we don't get enough sleep.
— Matthew WalkerSleep scientist and author of "Why We Sleep
In a geopolitical recession, suddenly the biggest macro risks are by their nature political. And you focus less on growth and more on stability and resilience, and that's a problem because the free market model tells you 'don't focus on resilience and stability, focus first and foremost on growth and everything else will take care of itself'.
— Ian BremmerFounder of Eurasia Group & Political Risk Analyst
The rise of populism, backlash against globalisation, and movement against open borders means that populations support the weaponisation of economies even though it doesn't work to their own advantage.
— Ian BremmerFounder of Eurasia Group & Political Risk Analyst
It's hard to predict risks, but easy to understand resilience, and frighteningly, we're living in a world that is less resilient than I've ever experienced in my lifetime.
— Ian BremmerFounder of Eurasia Group & Political Risk Analyst
We've entered a geopolitical recession, where the old US led world-order is unwinding. This isn't just a Trump issue- it's about Europe, BREXIT, about Russia undermining the US and the West, the rise of China and its alternative political and economic models.
— Ian BremmerFounder of Eurasia Group & Political Risk Analyst
When assessing any new technology, getting experts to explain and understand the benefits and risks is only one aspect of the debate. We also need to involve the public and other stakeholders in a proper transparent discussion on how the technology will be adopted.
— Venki RamakrishnanNobel Prize Winner in Chemistry for Ribosome Structure Studies
Much of the pushback against science is related to a distrust of the establishment and of multinational corporations and their profit motive. It's easy to spread fear; as humans we're very tuned and sensitive to it.
— Venki RamakrishnanNobel Prize Winner in Chemistry for Ribosome Structure Studies
My impression however is that the rate of change in society is accelerating as a result of rapid developments in science and technology. Science today is a huge, industrial scale activity and has a far greater impact on society than it did a few hundred years ago.
— Venki RamakrishnanNobel Prize Winner in Chemistry for Ribosome Structure Studies
On the whole, science is seen as one of the most trusted professions- and we need to retain that trust. It is essential that the public knows how deeply science and technology affect their lives.
— Venki RamakrishnanNobel Prize Winner in Chemistry for Ribosome Structure Studies
In the United States, we had over $940 billion dollars of fraud in 2017, that's almost $1 trillion. There isn't enough law enforcement in the world to deal with that.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
Criminals are not looking for challenges, but opportunities. Every breach I've been involved with comes down to the fact that someone in the company did something they weren't supposed to or failed to do something they should have done.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
The truth is that we live in a very unethical society. We don't teach ethics at home, schools or university. As a consequence most businesses don't have a code of ethics or conduct.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
Dehumanizing the victim through the internet has enabled people to commit crimes and not worry about their conscience.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
For the vast majority of financial crimes, embezzlement, credit-card scams, information selling and so on; this comes down to one simple motivation- making oneself richer, greed. I've been teaching at the FBI academy for 42 years, and the level of greed you see out there is unbelievable.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can