Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.
I know how to use computers. I was one of those guys on Myspace who had one of those fake hit counters.
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.
Spock is a huge mythical character that even people who aren't 'Star Trek' fans like.
I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
The NAACP ignores the wellspring of racism from within its own ranks, daring to brand anyone who disagrees with the standard they bear for the plantation-politics Democrats as 'white nationalists.'
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.
Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.
I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.
There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.
There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.
Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.
