Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

While infrastructure is of course important, it must be part of a bigger vision. The point is not to simply dig ditches but to steer those investments towards transformational growth.

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

Until I knew that it was you inside me, who has so much to say, I hesitated writing.

Take away the cause and the effect ceases.

I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around.

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.