“Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingHumansWellsPersonsAcceptingProgressDependsReasonableBobOlympicsPersistUnreasonableHuman ProgressTrying To Change Author:Bob Geldof
“We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.” IfsTryingWarMatterProblemIndividualPovertyConditionsSpringAspectTradeCorruptionAidsHealGovernanceFamineInstabilityEnding PovertyHiv Aids Author:Bob Geldof
“Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids” MenTryingKidsLeftGivenVoiceSecretAttentionHumourDrawsCourtDressingsDressing Up Author:Bob Geldof