The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Even though the desire is strong doesn't mean you deserve it.

You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.

Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

Football is nothing without fans.

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.