Philosophy

Power is the ability to affect others and get the outcomes you want – and that's true whether on the individual, national or international level. You can exert power in three ways. You can do it with coercion (sticks), you can do it with payments (carrots) and you can do it with soft power – through attraction.

Harvard Professor & Creator of "Soft Power" Concept

I believe businesses need to move away from having profit as their primary reason for existing. Profit primacy can be replaced by mission primacy.

Founder of Kickstarter, crowdfunding platform pioneer

You have this very activist sociology rather than a dispassionate or objective sociology informing a broadly humanist framework of caring about flourishing versus suffering. When your sociology has decided that the point of studying society is to change it, you've got a problem.

Mathematician & Scholar of Critical Theory Criticism & Academic Discourse

Critical narratives are centered on the idea of moral complicity in these evils and use very sophisticated rhetorical ways to get people to feel that guilt and to believe in their complicity. They use very obscure language that involves a lot of double-meaning and multiple-meaning to words so that people it confronts feel stupid.

Mathematician & Scholar of Critical Theory Criticism & Academic Discourse

You don't pick an aesthetic in abstract – you need to have a core point, a core reason to make a film, and the form of aesthetic springs from that necessity. Everything has to relate to that core intention.

British Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy

I think it's always good to find a film which is a question and an answer. It's hard to do – and often, when you've already decided the answer before you make the film, you'll find the film is less successful. In a funny way- if you can frame your question accurately as something that you don't know the answer to- and use the film as a way of finding the answer- you'll get a more complex and engaging film.

Director of Bourne action films and political thrillers

There's a tension amongst the countries who belong to, and who have led, international organisations. Are they there to solve problems which no country can alone solve? Or – are they there to impose one particular view of the world on the rest of the world?

Director of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University

You can't build a bridge or an aircraft using postmodernist feminist epistemology.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

You should never sacrifice truth at the altar of social justice- that is what idea pathogens do.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

Postmodernists are intellectual terrorists who fly their planes of bullshit into the edifices of reason.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

It takes intellectuals to come up with really stupid ideas. Unfortunately, these idea pathogens have led us to the abyss of infinite lunacy.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

I think that's why I've always felt comfortable in the arts where you are creating things that will hopefully be around for a long time and won't be transient.

Jewellery tends to have a much longer life – it can become part of your heritage and have a sentimental value that runs extremely deep, across generations.

I was born premature, just 1lb 14oz, and my parents were told that survival chances for babies born so premature were low, and that it was likely I would grow up with disabilities if I survived. Praise God I survived, and I'm here today to live out my dreams.

Former Fifth Harmony Member & Solo Artist

I remain a technical optimist… the problem is not artificial intelligence, it's natural stupidity.

We didn't just make technology, it made us. In the modern context, this phenomenon terrifies some people and excites others- but it's going to happen. We have to understand how humans and their tools and technologies blend at scale – it's going to be an absolutely fascinating journey.