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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2025 source ↗
I REALIZED IN THOSE DAYS HOW TENUOUS OUR EXISTENCE IS,” HE WROTE IN HBR. “WE HAVE ONLY ONE LIFE, AND IT MUST BE LIVED TO THE FULLEST—NOT SOMEDAY, BUT NOW.
You always have to believe in your principles and take the route that is fair, even if it is tougher.
It is necessary, I believe, to accept this idea, not only for science, but also for other things; it is of great value to acknowledge ignorance. It is a fact that when we make decisions in our life we don't necessarily know that we are making them correctly; we only think that we are doing the best we can – and that is what we should do.
To trust in the process.
I don’t want to get into an early death spiral, when you’re scaling down your life unnecessarily because you’ve already been there or done that. I never want to stop adventuring.
I suspect it hasn’t happened yet.
Anything by Dostoevsky. I tried!
They tend to say it behind my back.
Insular, creative and mechanically minded.
A great education.
Shinya Yamanaka, Diana Athill, Alan Cumming, Mario Molina, Hiroshi Mikitani, Fearne Cotton
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