What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel.
Paul BloomThe fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.
Paul BloomThe effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.
Paul BloomWhen you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?"
Paul Bloom