TED Quotes

“If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.” — Peter Singer on.ted.com/jbHw #TED

“Forget an identity crisis — get some identity capital. Do something that adds value to who you are.” — Meg Jay on.ted.com/gaPF #TED

“I wished to photograph the other animals — to photograph us, but us from the beginning.” — Sebastião Salgado on.ted.com/iYmO #TED

“LOL doesn't mean laughing out loud anymore. It's evolved into something that is much subtler.” — John McWhorter on.ted.com/tAXD #TED

“The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just clean water.” — Rose George on.ted.com/aWJ7 #TED

“Once scientists became a professional group, they were slowly walled off from the rest of us.” — Laura Snyder on.ted.com/fWWa #TED

“Healthcare is treating us as averages, but the patient is not the same thing as the population.” — Eric Dishman on.ted.com/gWhe #TED

“When politicians say that change is impossible, we must say, ‘That's just irrelevant.’” — Lawrence Lessig on.ted.com/fVVb #TED

“An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.” — Danny Hillis on.ted.com/r6VC #TED

“We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand ends up shaping us.” — Catarina Mota on.ted.com/eSio #TED

“The brain isn't a chemical soup. You can't treat psychiatric disorders by changing the flavor” — David Anderson on.ted.com/t5np #TED

“Philanthropy is the market for love — for those people for whom there's no other market coming.” — Dan Pallotta on.ted.com/eSLS #TED

“If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.” — Shane Koyczan on.ted.com/iSag #TED

“We gotta flip the script on what a gangster is — if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangster.” — Ron Finley on.ted.com/gSSY #TED

“Better degrees don't always translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.” —Andreas Schleicher on.ted.com/iQhW #TED

“Futureless language speakers all around the world turn out to be some of the world's best savers.” — Keith Chen on.ted.com/r33a #TED

“A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.” — Young-ha Kim on.ted.com/r2ZH #TED

“‘When I look at my partner radiant and confident,’ is the biggest turn-on across the board.” — Esther Perel on.ted.com/aPJf #TED

“No one knows why our thoughts should relate to the fundamental workings of the universe.” —James B. Glattfelder on.ted.com/aPCA #TED

“Behind an Afghan girl who succeeds is a father who recognizes her success is his success.”—Shabana Basij-Rasikh on.ted.com/dOqs #TED