34 Quotes by Richard Florida

I think we do need more time off, but it's not a government issue. It needs to be a social thing. People need to realize that working all the time and ignoring families is not healthy.

people are really smart and engaged. There's no better place in the country to write serious nonfiction. There's no better place to be public intellectuals.

You know what they say, they say we want our kids back. We want them to stop leaving. What they don't say is that they want other people's kids to move there.

Cities have realized that they can attract educated people and they don't need good schools to do it.

You've got these housing markets that are completely out of whack. There's no point of entry for young people anymore.

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

Denser cities are smarter and more productive

New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.