Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.

Erik Brynjolfsson

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• China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

  

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
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• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
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• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• We haven't had the success we had hoped to achieve. Josh McDaniels is the head coach of the Broncos and you always strive for stability at that position. However, with five games left in the 2010 season, we will continue to monitor the progress of the team and evaluate what's in the best interest of this franchise.

  

  Pat Bowlen
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• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
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• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
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• Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
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  • Time
  • Believe

• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Economic
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• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
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• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  

  Nam June Paik
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  • Good
  • War

• The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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  • Great
  • Family

• The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
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• Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

  

  W. Arthur Lewis
  • Free
  • Progress

• If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Progress
  • Inheritance

• I would love to go back as Leela in this new series.

  

  Louise Jameson

• Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Life
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• There isn't a lot of honesty when it comes to discussing Obamacare. Too many Republicans lie about the implications of the health-insurance program and dismiss out of hand the reasons a massive overhaul of the long-time system is necessary.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Health

• But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Progress
  • Revolution
  • Innovation