After previously discussing surveillance and autonomous cars, Singularity University's Brad Templeton returns to Big Think to examine some lighter fare: quantum mechanics and computing.

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously."

"You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized."

A little bit of history was made on Nantucket on Sunday.   Julian Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over […]

Hal Luftig, who's won four Tonys and an Olivier award, explains why there's no entertainment experience in the world quite like live theater.

"To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality."  

"It’s important to remember that Holmes wasn’t born Holmes. Holmes was born like you and me but probably with greater potential for certain elements of observation, but he learned over time to think like Sherlock Holmes." -Author Maria Konnikova, from her Big Think Interview