Geoff Mulgan quotes - page 2

The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government. (Geoff Mulgan)
It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy. View quote
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Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare. View quote
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Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason. View quote
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I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed. View quote
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Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow. View quote
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Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. View quote
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Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals. View quote
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Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices. View quote
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Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. View quote
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As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from. (Geoff Mulgan)
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed. View quote
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All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains. View quote
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Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education. View quote
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A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes. View quote
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A lot of people in government don't really read books at all. View quote
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Lots of creativity is and should be solitary. View quote
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There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people. View quote
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Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism. View quote
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By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children. View quote
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Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them. (Geoff Mulgan)
In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties. View quote
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Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own. View quote
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The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality. View quote
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The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning. View quote
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