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We Are 99.9% Not Different - Bill Clinton's Remark at Harvard College Day 2007
- pg 19y agoBut are all genes equal? Humans and chimps are 98.5% similar, but whatever's in that 1.5% seems to make a big difference.
- SimJapan2005 19y agoHi Paul, exactly his message --- even comparison with just humans --- we are just different 1/10 of 1% --- and almost all us tend to focus on that difference. He, mentioning we somehow forgetting about purpose over power.
- SimJapan2005 19y agoBill just wanted to relay that in a much as we should enjoy our differences --- we should be beginning to put forth more value to our common humanity. It's fastly becoming a very small interdependent world and high time to care much more.
- create_account 19y agoHey, this is supposed to be startup news... once the political stuff creeps in here it'll be just like reddit (and I don't mean that in a good way).
- SimJapan2005 19y agohi. no political intention meant. just thought something that's intrinsic part of our humanity. please read content and maybe you'll agree. thanks.