Frances Arnold Quotes

I really want to build something to make the world a better place.

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.

We want to inspire everyone to recognize the positive social impact they can have if they choose to become technologists.

Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.

We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

I want to impact the world through futuristic yet affordable technologies to make the world a better place.

Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.

I want to help make the world a better place.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.

I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to people's lives, and I mean no disrespect to the hard work that has made them possible. But in the face of threats to humanity's future on the one hand and the extraordinary potential of mankind on the other, at some point we must ask: are we capable of more?

I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.