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Watch this talk Share“Deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.”
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“My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.”
— Jane McGonigalJane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
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“A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class — based on test scores — by over 10 percent in a single year. … That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.”
— Bill GatesBill Gates: Mosquitos, malaria and education
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“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.”
— Wael GhonimWael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution
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“The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don’t have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.”
— Yang LanYang Lan: The generation that's remaking China
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“I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.”
— Bill GatesBill Gates: Mosquitos, malaria and education
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“In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and predictability is not there. It becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies.”
— Bill ClintonBill Clinton on rebuilding Rwanda
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“I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.”
— Jeremy GilleyJeremy Gilley: One day of peace
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“There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.”
— Vilayanur RamachandranVS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
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“As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.”
— Al GoreAl Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
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“The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It’s made up of 53 different countries. So to say ‘invest in Africa’ is a no-go. It’s meaningless.”
— Euvin NaidooEuvin Naidoo on investing in Africa
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“[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there’s plenty of opportunity.”
— Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaNgozi Okonjo-Iweala: Want to help Africa? Do business here
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“By the end of this year, there’ll be nearly a billion people on this planet that actively use social networking sites. The one thing that all of them have in common is that they’re going to die.”
— Adam OstrowAdam Ostrow: After your final status update
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“The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don’t know. Can fish play the piano?”
— Cary FowlerCary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
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“If we don’t pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it’s as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.”
— Julia BachaJulia Bacha: Pay attention to nonviolence
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“No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.”
— David DeutschDavid Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
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“I’m not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I’m talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.”
— Cary FowlerCary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
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“George Kimble said, ‘The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.’ So let’s start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer.”
— Euvin NaidooEuvin Naidoo on investing in Africa
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“When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we’ve got to think that consumption is an issue. It’s not just about population.”
— Jason ClayJason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity
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“Education campaigns … may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.”
— Emily OsterEmily Oster flips our thinking on AIDS in Africa
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