“Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit f...” — Maryanne Wolf Quote

“Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.”

“There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth.”

“We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.”

“My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were - these are both men and women. And without learning from my co-workers, I never could've gone on in the profession as long as I did.”

“I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.”