Some of the most interesting, provocative and salient quotes we heard around the Aspen Ideas Festival today:

“We live in an era of massive passive data, when massive amounts of data are collected passively.” - Nicholas Christakis, Professor & Director of the Human Nature Lab, Harvard University

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“Networks are agnostic: they will magnify anything, good or bad. Networks magnify whatever they are seeded with.” - Nicholas Christakis

“Information, if it reaches you at the right time, can save lives and empower you.” - Monique Villa, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation

“There are more mobile phones in the world than toilets or toothbrushes.” – Eric Topol, Director & Chief Academic Officer of Scripps Translational Science Institute and Scripps Health

“There are three criteria for a good project: impact, uniqueness and magic.” – Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

“Facebook has the potential to institutionalize word of mouth.” – Shelly Lazarus, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather

 “Women can have it all, but they can’t have all of it all at once all the time.” – Shelly Lazarus