Television presenter; host of The Amazing Race
Probably the biggest impact for something less than $100.00 would be a mole skin diary. I’ve got them all lined up for every year. I’ve had them since 1986.
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
In their fifties
The densest band in the archive, and the age at which the question about what everyone in your field gets wrong tends to get its bluntest answer.
45 people · 1,436 answers
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months?
General partner at Benchmark Capital
I have a very peculiar answer. Really, really amazing nail clippers. Pay 50 bucks for them, or something. It could change your life, I promise.
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2023
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Probably a piece of music.
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners
This is going to sound a little strange, but my trainer started recommending that I add moringa leaf powder to my tea.
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
Scottish organic chemist
I don’t know. That’s a terrible answer I realise, and everyone wants a nice straight forward answer.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2022
Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
As I was lazy and rarely did my homework, I finished high school with a rather mediocre exam. I almost did not pass in English language.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1995
Veterinary surgeon and immunologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1996
I tried for a Ph.D. scholarship to work with Cedric Mims, but was told to apply again later because he already had a "scholar" and would take only one student at a time.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1996
Playwright; two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
I was writing poetry. But I found the theater such an exciting experience that one day I went home to try.
Recorded · The Paris Review, Issue 153, Winter 1999 · 1999
Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
Working at the hospital, I found that my surgical skills were not as good as I expected.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2012
American physician-scientist
about 95% of the experiments we do are total failures, and that’s because we’re out there on the leading edge of what’s possible, and most of the time it isn’t quite possible.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2000
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why?
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.
Recorded · Caltech Engineering and Science (Caltech Library archive) · 1974
Veterinary surgeon and immunologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1996
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1996
Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999
At the age of 21, as a Moeid, I believed that behind every universal phenomenon there must be beauty and simplicity in its description. This belief remains true today.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1999
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Alison Moyet, Andrew O’Hagan, Barack Obama, Bear Grylls, Billy Crudup, Bryn Terfel, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Cybill Shepherd, Daphne Guinness, David Guetta, David Hasselhoff, Dervla Kirwan, Ed Harris, Gregory Porter, Indira Varma, Jack Davenport, Jason Donovan, Kate Humble, Lemn Sissay, Maggie O'Farrell, Marcus Brigstocke, Mario Molina, Mark Bonnar, Mellody Hobson, Michelle Visage, Monica Dolan, Naga Munchetty, Natalie Imbruglia, Neil Gaiman, Nick Frost, Nuala McGovern, Penny Lancaster, Peter Sarsgaard, Richard Feynman, Rory Stewart, Sarah Hadland, Sharleen Spiteri, Shinya Yamanaka, Shirley Manson, Shobna Gulati, Sofia Coppola, Stephen K Amos, Steve Jobs, Suzanne Vega, Winston Churchill