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If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.
When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.
I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.
The struggles to overturn colonial rule were long and often bitter. But, over time, most were inevitably successful.
Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.
The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.
Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.
We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble
Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.
The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.
I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.
If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.
My favourite thing about the holiday season is to spend time with family and friends and to take time off to celebrate.
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.
Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.
May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.
You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.
Every event, whether they're positive or negative, shapes us. And sometimes, events happen that we couldn't even fathom.
The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.
[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.
I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike.
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.
Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.
I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself on the shuttle.
Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.
Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.
I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.
At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.
Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.
I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.
The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.
The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."