Manolis Kellis

And then later tonight you're coming over and we're having a conversation that will be very public with dozens of other people, but we will not share with the world.

So in a way, which one's more private?

The one here or the one there?

Here there's just two of us, but a lot of others listening.

There, a lot of people speaking and thinking together and bouncing off each other.

And maybe that will then impact your millions of, you know, audience.

through your next conversation.

And I think that's part of the beauty of humanity.

The fact that no matter how small, how alone, how broadcast immediately or later on something is, it still percolates through the human psyche.

So it's not just MIT people and it's not just Harvard people.

We have artists, we have musicians, we have painters, we have dancers, we have cinematographers, we have so many different diverse folks.

And

The goal is exactly that, celebrate humanity.

What is humanity?

Humanity is the all of us.

It's not the any one subset of us.

And we live in such an amazing, extraordinary moment in time where you can sort of bring people from such diverse professions, all living under the same city.

We live in an extraordinary city where you can have extraordinary people who have gathered here from all over the world.

So my father grew up in a village in an island in Greece that didn't even have a high school.

To go get a high school education, he had to move away from his home.