Geoff Mulgan

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

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.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.