There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

I don't want to be like the angry old guy in the corner who is always ranting and raving about the same things - but I don't mind doing that just a little bit!

My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

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

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair