People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.
It is people who are important, not the masses.
I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.
People first. Technology second.
These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.
I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.
I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
Isn't it strange -- when you're single, all you see is couples, and when you're part of a couple, all you see are hookers.
I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.
Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.
It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
