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# How To Improve the World in 140 Characters

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## Callie Schweitzer


Mar 13, 2014 10:45 AM UTC

by 

[Callie Schweitzer](https://time.com/author/callie-schweitzer/)


## Callie Schweitzer


Mar 13, 2014 10:45 AM UTC

Can you make the world better in 140 characters or less? We asked online luminaries for their best ideas. Tweet your own using #TIMEIDEAS.

* [@mariobatali](https://twitter.com/Mariobatali), Chef, cookbook author and restaurateur: “The first step to empowering a new generation to innovate and thrive is to make sure every child is fed.”
* [@MalalaFund](https://twitter.com/MalalaFund), (Malala Yousafzai), Founder: “The best way to fight terrorism is to fight ignorance with books and pens.”
* [@llcoolj](https://twitter.com/llcoolj), Entertainment icon: “More love, more kindness, more selfless acts.”
* [@susancain](https://twitter.com/susancain), Author of “QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” and co-founder of the Quiet Revolution: “”Introverts today are roughly where women were 50 years ago. Time for a Quiet Revolution!”
* [@rickygervais](https://twitter.com/rickygervais), Creator and star of “The Office” and “Extras” actor, writer, comedian: “Remember: When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It’s only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.”
* [@robdelaney](https://twitter.com/robdelaney), Comedian: “Read a book to a kid. Hopefully they’ll live longer than you and maybe do something good with their life. Worth a shot?”
* [@stevewoz](https://twitter.com/stevewoz), (Steve Wozniak), Co-founder, Apple Computer Inc.: “The only person you must convince in a disagreement is yourself. When someone is bad to you, be good to them. Make peace, not war.”
* [@nancylublin](https://twitter.com/nancylublin), CEO of [@dosomething](https://twitter.com/dosomething): “More big data for social change, like [@CrisisTextLine](https://twitter.com/CrisisTextLine). (And free chocolate for everyone.)”
* [@adambraun](https://twitter.com/AdamBraun), Founder of [@pencilsofpromis](https://twitter.com/PencilsOfPromis): “Ensure everyone had a great mentor and teacher in their life at all times.”
* [@nespector](https://twitter.com/nespector), (Nancy Spector), Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum: “With the best art, everything you thought you knew comes into question, even who you are. And we need to remember that this is a good thing.”
* [@scotthoying](https://twitter.com/scotthoying), Singer, [@PTXofficial](https://twitter.com/PTXofficial): “If music is the language of the world, then just imagine how beautiful a 7 billion part harmony would be.”
* [@SarahRobbOh](https://twitter.com/SarahRobbOh), (Sarah Robb O’Hagan), President of Equinox: “I’m thinking team sports that involve boys n girls together. So they learn what gr8 gender balance feels like at an early age. #WinTogether”
* [@alexisohanian](https://twitter.com/alexisohanian), Co-founder of [@reddit](https://twitter.com/reddit), investor, entrepreneur: “What if we all had to live a day in someone else’s body? That’d be interesting. Someone work on the app for that.”
* [@AdamMGrant](https://twitter.com/AdamMGrant), Wharton professor and author of “Give and Take:” “A new definition of success: not just what you achieve, but also what you help others achieve.”
* [@humansofny](https://twitter.com/humansofny), (Brandon Stanton), Creator, Humans of New York: “Free internet from outer space for the whole world.”
* [@patkiernan](https://twitter.com/patkiernan), Anchor, NY1: “The tech breakthrough that would change everything: Affordable renewable energy (and batteries to store it).”
* [@kevinroose](https://twitter.com/kevinroose), Author of “Young Money” and [@nymag](https://twitter.com/NYMag) reporter: “Eliminate those plastic clamshell packages that are impossible to open without industrial-strength scissors and also global hunger.”
* [@benjlerer](https://twitter.com/BenjLerer), Founder, Thrillist Media Group: “The Monday after the Super Bowl should be declared National Hangover Day and all businesses should be closed.”
* [@thegothamgal](https://twitter.com/thegothamgal), (Joanne Wilson), Founder of the blog Gotham Gal and Gotham Gal Ventures: “Have more women rule the world. Lead our countries and our companies. Legalize pot in every state. #change”
* [@teddygoff](https://twitter.com/teddygoff), Partner at Precision Strategies: “More disruption! An app in every pot. Oh, and campaign finance reform, without which other meaningful reforms will not happen.”
* [@NellSco](https://twitter.com/NellSco), (Nell Scovell), Journalist and TV writer: “Be female positive and carbon neutral. #fixedit”
* [@hmason](https://twitter.com/hmason), (Hilary Mason), Data Scientist in Residence, [@Accel](https://twitter.com/Accel) Partners: “We should build technology to be empowering to people, not businesses!”
* [@cyrusmassoumi](https://twitter.com/CyrusMassoumi), Founder and CEO of [@zocdoc](https://twitter.com/ZocDoc): “$6.5 trillion opportunity: Make healthcare as user-friendly as every other consumer industry.”
* [@mary\_roach](https://twitter.com/mary%5Froach), Author of “GULP” and “STIFF:” “If the curb space fits two cars, don’t park in the middle of it. Don’t be that guy.”
* [@vpostrel](https://twitter.com/vpostrel), (Virginia Postrel), Author of “The Power of Glamour” and a columnist for [@BloombergView](https://twitter.com/BloombergView): “Get over ‘one best way.’ Nobody’s normal. People are different. Stop trying to make everyone like you. ‘Like’=both verb & preposition.”
* [@marcidale](https://twitter.com/marcidale), (Marci Harris), CEO of [@popvox](https://twitter.com/POPVOX): “We can change the world by recognizing every person on the planet as an individual with dignity, worth & agency, rather than a statistic.”

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