Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.

Antonio Guterres
Antonio Guterres

A refugee in the traditional vision is someone who flees from country to another because of persecution or conflict. But what we're witnessing now more and more is a certain number of mega-trends interacting with one another: population growth, urbanization, food insecurity, water scarcity, climate change, and conflict.

Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan

The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan

Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.

Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

Ben Domenech
Ben Domenech

Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.

Cat Cora
Cat Cora

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

Craig Venter
Craig Venter

The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well.

Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek

I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don't think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity - that music is everywhere.