David Autor Quotes
Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
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Illustrious predecessor.
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I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.
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I am proud of my heritage and my family.
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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Beauty is life; beautiful is that being in which we see life as it should be according to our conceptions; beautiful is the object which expresses, or reminds us of life.
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Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.
