James Wolfensohn

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.