Philosophy

Most people don't know why an airplane stays in the air, but they'll still get on and fly to another continent.

Co-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer

While participatory culture can create a Wikipedia, it is not likely to produce something like the Star Wars franchise. I don't think that's a problem, because I don't think we have to choose between participatory and top-down culture – both will thrive.

Co-Founder of Wikipedia & Online Encyclopedia Pioneer

If morality is the science of the good, ethics is the study of that science, and bioethics is the study of that science as it relates to biosphere.

No industry and indeed no activity at all whether commercial or not should act unethically, or immorally and so the relationship of bioethics, or ethics, to anything it studies is the relationship of authority.

Many people think the role of bioethics is to go and see what the scientists or doctors are doing and tell them to stop because they are acting, by hypothesis, unethically. However I often find when I go and see what the scientists are doing, they are doing wonderful things and I'm very inclined to say 'great guys, keep going!'

The role of the dollar rests on many other things, not just economics. There is a reason why the likes of Alfred Smith, and Karl Marx studied politics and not economics.

Chief 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.

Philosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford

Connection is why we're here. It gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The ability to feel connected is neurobiologically wired into us.

Researcher & Author on Vulnerability, Shame, and Leadership

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Legendary 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.

German Philosopher & Social Theorist; Developed Theory of Communicative Action

We are no longer sovereign-islands protected by fortified walls and arbitrary map-lines- we are an interconnected global family who depend on each other in incredibly profound ways.

In times of crisis, whether through conflict or nature, it is not an option for us to assist people but an obligation.

Even the most untrained eye can sense the degrees of discrimination seen in foreign policy responses to natural disasters and conflict. Discrimination which can only rationally be explained by morally abhorrent flaws in foreign-policy.

The twenty million people who currently need assistance in Pakistan are not terrorists, nor of strategic importance for our governments. They are much more important than that, they are people like you and me- men, women, families, children- who only want the best for their lives, and who were already struggling with immense poverty, even before nature yielded a blow.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom – for example, in senates and learned societies.

Philosopher Known for "Beyond Good and Evil" & Critique of Morality

There are really only three types of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, 'What happened?' Which group would you rather be in?