Philosophy

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.

Economics is like artificial intelligence, it's not really there… there's no physical invisible hand…. It's about people interacting with people against a social order, a set of ethics, principles and practices.

Pioneer of Virtual Reality & Critic of Social Media

Technology isn't a 'thing,' it's a social structure that people act upon the universe through. The social structure has incentives, roles and governance which determine the meaning and effect of the technology, not the engineering itself.

Pioneer of Virtual Reality & Critic of Social Media

There's no sensible definition of people without technology. Our relationship with technology is complex and helical. As technology changes over time, so do we, and we have a situation therefore where we develop technologies, adapt, and then need new technologies to solve the side-effects of the first.

Pioneer of Virtual Reality & Critic of Social Media

The purpose of intelligence is to improve the quality of decision making by reducing ignorance. The more you know the more likely it is that a sound decision will be taken. That applies to all of us in our day-to-day decisions.

Former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator & National Security Adviser

We wouldn't want to live in a world of full transparency. That is a world where I can see into your brain, and you into mine. We all need privacy for our thoughts, and inside government we need politicians and advisers to be able to explore ideas in private.

Former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator & National Security Adviser

Our knowledge of the world is always fragmentary and incomplete and our explanations of how the world works have therefore to be considered as provisional. This means we have to accept that sometimes we will turn out afterwards to have been wrong.

Former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator & National Security Adviser

In comparing alternative explanations, it is not necessarily the one with the most evidence apparently in its favour that we should choose but the one with least evidence against it. One solid piece of evidence can demolish a hypothesis.

Former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator & National Security Adviser

If you view the world from a moral perspective, you have no option but to address climate change in a timely fashion. The good news is that the moral imperative is backed-up by economics, technological advance and capital shifts.

Former UN Climate Change Executive Secretary & Global Climate Action Leader

If you want to do something well you do it 1,000 times, if you want to do something great you do it 10,000 times.

Former SEAL Team Six member who shot Osama bin Laden

If I left this mission, and didn't go, I would be on my deathbed wishing I'd had that opportunity back.

Former SEAL Team Six member who shot Osama bin Laden