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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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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What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
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Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
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Every industry, as it comes to a certain level of maturity, there is consolidation. In that consolidation, some fall, but the men will always be there. It is the boys that get sloughed, I would say.
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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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I'm not advocating spending less on the elderly, but I am strongly advocating spending more on kids while also putting the country on a sound, long-term fiscal trajectory. To do that, we have to reduce the rate of growth of entitlement-related expenditures and add more revenues.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.
