Geoff Mulgan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Narcissism #Kind #Understood

“Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Innovation #Economy

“The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Art #Ideas #Doe

“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.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Attachment #Choices #Climate

“One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Opportunity #Ideas #Lessons

“So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Hands #Looks #Mouths

“The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Police #September 11 #Facts

“Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Ideas #Design #Innovation

“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.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Reality #Data #Fiction

“Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Years #People #Justice

“On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Thinking #Upset #Environmental

“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.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Technology #Ideas #People

“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.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Party #Political #Movement

“Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Children #Cutting #Government

“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

#Teenager #Writing #Skills

“Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Fun #Discipline #Covering

“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.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Children #Party #Community

“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.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Moving #People #Interesting

“There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Jobs #Teenager #School

“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.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Integrity #Commitment #People

“There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Technology #Rewards #Digital

“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

#Technology #Government #Cities

“One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#People #Culture #Violence

“Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Football #Team #Winning

“All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Letting Go #Goodbye #Space

“It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., 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.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Taken #Mean #Heart

“I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Years #America #Growth

“The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Motivation #Moving #Inspiration

“The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

“Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.”
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Creativity #Should #Solitary