Brynjolfsson And Mcafee Quotes

#1. Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.

Hal Varian

#2. We are all impatient as long as we are imperfect. It is the mark of the child that he is in a violent hurry where men are steady.

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#3. Americans believe that they still live in the land of opportunity - the country that offers the greatest chance of economic advancement. But this is no longer the case.

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#4. It's a fundamental principle of management: what gets measured gets done.

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#5. When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.

Janelle Monae

#6. We humans build machines to do things that we see being done in the world by animals and people, but we typically don't build them the same way that nature built us. As AI trailblazer Frederick Jelineck put it beautifully, Airplanes don't flap their wings.

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#7. Meanwhile, Singapore has implemented an Electronic Road Pricing System that has virtually eliminated congestion. Americans collectively spend over one hundred billion hours stuck in traffic jams, a testament to the fact that road pricing is not yet widely adopted.

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#8. After that day in your dorm when I fucked up your notes and kissed you against the wall, I

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#9. The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

C.S. Lewis

#10. A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

Brigham Young

#12. I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Ruth Benedict

#13. [T]he key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.

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#14. Would it be too hackneyed to wonder where it all went so wrong? Kitty's

Harlan Coben

#15. Jacob opened the refrigerator and stared into it vacantly, with the false purposefulness that lingers for a few moments when a person of a solitary nature is released from the company of a strong personality.

Caleb Crain

#16. No matter how bright the light is, you won't find your keys by searching under a lamppost if that's not where you lost them.

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#17. Lewis and Clarke. Why hadn't she said

Michael Connelly

#18. For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

Erin Brockovich

#19. People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

Polly Horvath

#20. The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.

Jacqueline Woodson