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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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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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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All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.
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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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What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
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I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."
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You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.
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Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.
