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Today Quotes
What today decides for tomorrow.
This page connects present-day choices to long-term consequences, whether in communication security policy or the shifting economics of building a sports team. For present-moment reflections, see Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can certainly imagine a day where task workers, enterprise workers no longer communicate via email but instead use some social vehicle that looks a lot like consumer social networks we see today.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hear People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
- Confluence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020