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Can the incredibly concrete and the totally abstract coexist?

We Earthlings have lots of growing up to do before we reach the shimmering standard of equality set by Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. 

The challenge for companies and for people is to get focused, ruthlessly focused.  And part of doing that is the pruning and deselecting moldy ideas. 

If everybody could fly the inability to fly would become a disability. 

One reason that we know that ideas stick and spread is because they’re useful.

When all the galaxies, stars, gas, dust, dark matter and all the other forms of matter and radiation are summed together, its energy still pales in comparison to dark energy. […]

Dutch designer Dave Hakkens admits he doesn't know how it would work, but his idea of Phonebloks -- easily-replaced parts that fit together "like Legos" to create a customized phone -- has gained considerable attention.

For many years I struggled to bring participation into my work. Then I learned how to use technology. 

Everything we experience and know about is caught in time, is caught in a moment, is not an illusion. 

Now that a prototype of a crew capsule has been built and is ready for testing, it's still not clear how the US' next manned spacecraft will be used.

The internet is no longer an alternative to real life, it’s a tool for arranging it.  And at that moment, we lost something that we used to call personal life.  

Energy becomes literally the fuel that allows us to fulfill almost all of our dreams and what I point out to people is we do have a squanderable abundance of energy.  It happens to be sunlight. 

Beveridge did what he loved, followed his dream, and ended up beating the odds. Maybe his success is not such a fluke after all. 

The idea that there's this massive amount happening under the hood came from Freud. 

The people who waved their American flags and shout about patriotism and at the same time don’t want immigrants to come across our borders or are concerned about illegal immigrants have missed the entire point of America.

Judah Folkman, the cancer researcher, is probably the most – one of the two or three most inspiring human beings I’ve ever met.  I only spent two or three hours […]

In a few months, World View will offer tickets for balloon rides that will take passengers to an altitude of about 100,000 feet. It's not high enough to experience microgravity, but they promise an awesome view.

When you tell a child "You’re so smart," you’re unwittingly encouraging a fixed mindset. 

Darwin may not have seen that a seemingly altruistic primate can also be quite disastrously aggressive. 

We live in one unified world.

People have hang-ups and blind spots and phobias and just sometimes they have a principled refusal to take something seriously. 

There are a growing number of corporations that are governed by "absentee owners," meaning there is "no oversight and no one making sure that corporations and management act sanely and responsibly."

Women are like tourists in a world that is not quite built to be aligned with how they are by nature or how they’ve been socialized by nurture.  

Today is a potentially big day at the U.S. Supreme Court, and that is not just because it is Justice Sotomayor's birthday. 

Estimates are that a third of the prison population has mental illness. 

Keeping a secret is quite bad for you because it causes a lot of stress. 

One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.

The modern dictator needs only to become a client-state to Russia or China (or to be Russia or China), and there is nothing he can't get away with. We members of open societies have the power to change that. All we need is the resolve.

There are multiple levels of "we" and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

I don’t think mathematical models can do much to get us out of the mess that we’re in.