It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.
Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.
Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.
Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.
My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.
If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.
The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.