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Steven Pinker Quotes

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Steven Pinker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 18, 1954

Topics

Learning Children Language Long Dots

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.

Jennifer Doudna

Know More Ethical Answer Screen Lot

Boys don't cry. But they do. We do. I do. I weep all the time.

Matt Haig

Time Cry Weep

If you outsmart your audience, you're going to lose them.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

You Lose Audience Going Your Them

I always had a tremendous amount of rage about the business, and I thought turning that into comedy was healthy.

Andy Kindler

Business Thought Comedy Healthy Rage

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Amy Bloom

Happiness Confused Interesting Get

I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every 'Dreams From My Father' - Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing - there were a dozen cautious, formulaic vanity projects by politicians.

Amy Chozick

Father Dreams Vanity Politicians

You can get a good handle on a company's culture before you even get inside the building. For example, when companies say, 'We value our employees' but have reserved parking spots, a private cafeteria, and over-the-top offices for the executives, that tells you more than any PR spin.

Steve Blank

Good Culture Value Building You Say

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Robert Baden-Powell

Friend You Hold Must Get

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Rollo May

Courage Ahead Despair Absence Move

The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.

Jonathan Zittrain

Apple New Desire Spirit iPhone Been

Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.

Don Yaeger

Years Eccentric Charismatic Bill

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Donald Kagan

History Experience People Direction