Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
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Why this would happen to us? I don't know. We've had three tough losses and a total of five tough losses. I wouldn't want a different group to coach. These are the guys I like. It's up to us, and we're going to see what's going to happen down the road.
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I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
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The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.
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In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.
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Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
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It (stinks). I didn't make the final. I'm disappointed. I wanted to make that final. I feel like I could have made that final. Today just wasn't my day.
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I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.
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When we [Migos] talk about whatever we're talking about, and you visualise it, that's what we really went through.
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Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.
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It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.
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All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.
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This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.
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Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
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You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day.
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A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.
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I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
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Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.
