David Autor Quotes
Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.
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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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There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
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It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.
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In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.
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Human nature as we know it is, nevertheless, malleable and manageable. It may be radically modified as a result of advances in bio-, molecular, nano- and computational technologies. It will therefore be essential to establish a clear code of ethics regulating the use of these technologies sooner rather than later.
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Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.
