David Autor Quotes
The fact that a task cannot be computerized does not imply that computerization has no effect on that task. On the contrary, tasks that cannot be substituted by computerization are generally complemented by it. This point is as fundamental as it is overlooked.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
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It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.
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For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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The fact that a task cannot be computerized does not imply that computerization has no effect on that task. On the contrary, tasks that cannot be substituted by computerization are generally complemented by it. This point is as fundamental as it is overlooked.
