Coursera Machine Quotes

#1. If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

Joshua Schachter

#2. I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Steven Wright

#3. The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

Jomo Kenyatta

#4. Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#5. But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

Confucius

#6. Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Barack Obama

#8. You don't fix the problem until you define it.

John W. Snow

#9. As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.

Kate Christensen