We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.