If disruptions are threatening you from outside your industry, how can you see them coming?   

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."- James Joyce

"I will not take 'but' for an answer."- Langston Hughes (born on this date in 1902)

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."- Jackie Robinson (born on this date in 1919)

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."- Franklin D. Roosevelt (born on this date in 1882)

“The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.” ― Emanuel Swedenborg (born on this date in 1688)

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (born on this date in 1873)

One might say of Bach's time, it's unheard of to combine opera with a religious theme, my dear. 

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."- Lewis Carroll (born on this date in 1832)

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."- General Douglas MacArthur (born on this date in 1880)

An experimental device has been unveiled in a paper in the journal Nature that promises to be able to keep accurate time for the next 5 billion years. 

Supernova SN 2014J is one of the closest to be seen in recent decades and is now the brightest part of M82 and visible in small telescopes in the evening sky.

Stephen Hawking has proposed a breakthrough theory in a new paper - the idea that black holes can exist without an event horizon. 

Kirk Johnson: It was an amazing discovery that we’re all related, but it was not obvious.  It’s not obvious that I’m related to a strawberry.  

"I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."- Virginia Woolf (born on this date in 1882)

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."- Edith Wharton

The light from an exploding star in the Messier 82 (aka "Cigar") galaxy was first photographed from Earth on January 22nd, 2013. 

To enter adulthood, your brain needs to remodel itself to handle the unsafe and the uncertain. 

Questions can be submitted via Twitter today using the #AskSnowden hashtag. 

"The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being." - Sergei Eisenstein (born on this date in 1898)