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.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Find
  • Lot

• 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.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Business
  • Better

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Inside

• I really wanted to be a writer.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Wanted
  • Writer
  • Really

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• 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.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Hero
  • Living
  • Legend

• 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.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
  • May
  • True

• 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?

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Duty

• 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.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

  

  Sallust
  • Better
  • Fair
  • Conquer

• 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.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Reality
  • Way
  • You

• 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.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Women
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Scary

• Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Nature

• Illustrious predecessor.

  

  Edmund Burke

• I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Sometimes, it just gets mentally tough, but at the end of the day, I'm playing golf for a living. And reaching out to a huge fan base and knowing people are following my progress and looking up to me means the world to me. So if all I have to do is some photo shoots and answer questions, that's nothing to me. That's part of my life.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan.

  

  John Cena
  • Up
  • Time
  • Night

• Oh, God, Shannon. You're blowing my mind." Clint's morning voice was rich with passion. I wanted to correct him and explain that it wasn't his mind I was blowing, but my mother had taught me it was impolite to speak when one's mouth was full.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • God
  • Mind
  • Mother

• I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.

  

  Dannii Minogue
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

  

  David Autor