The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. JERRY SPINELLI That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM We want to create a theater that people take home and think about and mull over - and perhaps make s... JOSEPH MCGRATH The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that loo... EVGENY MOROZOV What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers... EDDIE REDMAYNE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge... BEN ZOBRIST I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we... SUZANNE COLLINS I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think wri... LEE SMITH It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With b... RAY KURZWEIL It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.&... DAN ARIELY It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's... K'NAAN Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an in... RANDY NEWMAN You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each o... LARRY WILCOX There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, e... HERBERT SIMON Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we ... JOHN J. EMERICK What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep... DAVID GERROLD The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We do... STEVE STOUTE We think there are other ways to get the point across other than directing it at the economy of the ... BEN MONTERROSO Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of pr... THOM GUNN When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people tha... KEITH STANFIELD I think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and... MARK ZUCKERBERG A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don&... HORTON FOOTE We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live lik... CRISTIANO RONALDO Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compre... ERIC SCHMIDT ...we think it's about giving consumers choice, we think it's about not necessarily asking them to p... CHRIS LEWIS In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about lib... ABIGAIL WASHBURN We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not jus... LEWIS THOMAS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to l... KYLIE BAX God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about t... DOUGLAS WILSON Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about techn... DIANE SAWYER In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual ... DAVID SANBORN To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are go... MIKE MILLS As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day... ORLANDO BLOOM I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos ... MARK ZUCKERBERG Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology ... ESTHER DYSON Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you m... VIGGO MORTENSEN I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we... COLIN TREVORROW Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first son... BEN HOPKINS Feedback doesn’t tell you about yourself. It tells you about the person giving the feedback. In ot... TARA MOHR I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, a... ELOISE MUMFORD If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know... TOM VILSACK Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but i... DAVID LEVERING LEWIS New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it. DAVID WONG I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society... GEMMA CHAN If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no s... DAN GROAT The horror genre gets you in touch with our primal instincts as a people more than any other genre I... DREW GODDARD Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified... BRENE BROWN I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. Y... LILLY SINGH We can get very excited about covering ourselves with technology. But at the end of the day, you hav... AMYAS GODFREY I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it do... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an intere... RANDY NEWMAN I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the inst... CLYDE TOMBAUGH If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you... DOROTHY STRATTEN We think there are other ways to get the point across other than directing it at the economy of the ... BEN MONTERROSO I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as... RYAN GOSLING I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as lon... TARAN KILLAM I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It... BRIAN GRAZER We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we ... STELLA YOUNG Some people have that school of thought where fitness isn't enjoyable, but we're making it e... PAYAL KADAKIA When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what w... OFRA STRAUSS A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture.... JAMES GLEICK 'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects t... TOBIN BELL I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We w... DAVE SITEK As a storyteller, you have to have something to say. You have to look at the world, think about it i... JEFF NICHOLS A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as comp... MITCHELL BAKER What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we real... ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you ... ALBER ELBAZ I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when ... DAN BUETTNER Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids... GUY FIERI The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to eac... PETER SINGER What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viru... GABE NEWELL People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I'm one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways tha... MISHA COLLINS As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to... SHAHID KAPOOR To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it... SUMMER SANDERS You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what'... ERIC CARR I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company i... MARISSA MAYER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so muc... OLIVIA CULPO I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory ... JAMES CAMERON Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think ... CHRISTINA RICCI
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