Good Magazine highlights the group The Friends of High Line who are converting a former elevated track used by Freight Trains, into a 1.5 mile public park in NYC.

One of the most beautiful things about this whole story is it shows you that things that ought to be, can be; if you just have the will to pursue them.
-Edward Norton

Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, speaks to the Harvard Business School in this video from 2002. His inspiring and provocative lecture promotes creating businesses that add value to the world and discusses why his company DEKA, chooses the projects that it does.

Jay Conger, a professor at University of Southern California demonstrates how stories can be effective for communicating with a specific objective in mind. Jay provides a great example from Southwest Airlines and shares several tips for constructing effective stories.

Microsoft offers some great behind the scenes footage for Halo 3 from the designers and engineers at Bungie Studios.

It’s great, there’s 90 guys here, half of them are artists, half of them are engineers, and it is like oil and water. All the left brain people and all the right brain people… and both groups thing they are really the people in charge.
-CJ COWAN (Boy Wonder)

Arthur Ganson, artist in residence at MIT creates kinetic sculptures which rely on beautiful engineering and loads of creativity. Arthur speaks about how he got started and describes his thoughts behind a few of his incredible sculptures.

Jeff Han of NYU demonstrates the capabilities and natural interactions of a digital multi-touch screen interface.

As part of the Authors@Google series, Seth Godin talks about the importance of permission marketing, telling a story, and making something remarkable.

People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
-Seth Godin

Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start and former Chief Evangelist at Apple, shares tips to start-up companies in this lecture at Gigamon University.

Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
-Guy Kawasaki

Lawrence K. Fish, Chairman and former CEO of Citizens Financial Group shares his perspective on what it means to treat both employees and customers with respect. Lawrence grew a small Rhode Island bank into the third most profitabl company in New England. His management techniques are studied and admired by many.

Frank Gehry, the worlds most famous living architect, speaks at Princeton and discusses what has gone into building his company and provides a tour through photographs of many of his projects. Filmed: March 6th, 2002

The hall is wood because it is psychoacoustic… people think it sounds better.
- Frank Gehry