If you ask the smartest physicists around who is the smartest physicist around, in my experience half of them will say Ed Witten.

One of the smartest people I've ever met.

Where would you say we need to be the smartest?

I can't believe that you were the smartest kid in your class.

So it'll be the smallest and lightest and the smartest arm ever made.

The smartest one, first to come in, was the MTN company of South Africa.

And they can actually often be smarter than even the smartest person within them.

You know, we're the smartest thing out there, why can't we figure this out?

So let me just explain to you that the smartest man ever was a Scotsman.

And three of the smartest people were Stan Ulam, Richard Feynman and John von Neumann.

Thank you so much. It's really scary to be here among the smartest of the smart.

I'll admit, it wasn't exactly the smartest of starts, but, you know, you got to start somewhere.

We know best what they will say, when the smartest of them in approach will say, You stayed only a day!

We know best what they will say, when the smartest of them in approach will say, You stayed only a day!

At the moment, we don t hear much about the smartest choices when it comes to addressing global warming. That needs to change.

And so that tight community is who really cares for the site, and these are some of the smartest people I've ever met.

Bill Gates is one of those smartest guys of ours that work on these problems and he also funds this work, so thank you.

So we thought, well, wouldn't it be fun to get together with some of the smartest design guys in the world and try to figure out if we could make the cubicle better?

Moreover, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy hasn t done much except hand out some special grants to the smartest immigrants from the suburbs. France does have affirmative action programs, but they address poverty, not ethnicity.

But a knowledge economy cannot operate with muzzled minds. Even the smartest authoritarian rulers are unable to manage complexity on this scale not to mention the corruption that inevitably breeds in the protected shadows of autocracy.

You know, my partners at Kleiner and I were compulsive networkers, and so when we see a big problem or an opportunity like avian flu or personalized medicine, we just get together the smartest people we know.

This may help to explain the lukewarm reception that the concept of Asia for Asians has received this time around. The smartest thing for Chinese leaders to do would be to drop it, once and for all.

I believe that the Global Fund is one of the smartest investments that we can make as many governments have understood from the outset. The United States has been the Global Fund s largest supporter, but many others have done their part.

That sounds simple, but how many executives can admit that they don t know everything or that they aren t the smartest person in the room? Many business leaders talk a good game about diversity, but surround themselves with people who are just like them.

The final decision about which targets will become global policy will affect the flow of trillions of dollars over the next 15 years. In September, when world leaders gather in New York, they need to focus on the smartest ways to boost global prosperity.

Yet the cost would be anything but negligible. The EU s own estimate is about 60 billion annually , which is almost certainly a vast underestimate (its previous estimate was almost twice as much), since it requires the EU to make the reductions in the smartest way possible.

However, the EU doesn t just want to cut emissions in the smartest possible way, but also to increase the share of renewable energy in the Union by 20 by 2020. This increase has no separate climate effect, since we ve already promised to cut emissions by 20 .

This all happened a couple of years ago just before Yahoo! gave up on search entirely and handed that part of its business over to Microsoft. Also around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the smartest things he has ever said The future of search is verbs.

The international community is working on new development goals for the next 15 years, and the Copenhagen Consensus has asked some of the world s leading economists to give their assessment of the smartest targets they can choose. Is reducing violence a goal worthy of resources that would otherwise be spent on, say, reducing hunger?

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