Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
-
The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
-
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
-
I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
-
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
-
Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
-
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
-
I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
-
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
-
I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
-
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
-
There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
-
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.
-
A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
-
I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
-
It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.
-
Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that's based on a different set of principles, that's based on a sense of common humanity, that's based on economies that work for all people.
-
Never be ashamed of who you are, your story, or how you react to situations. Don't ever be ashamed of how you communicate with people. Don't ever be ashamed of the person you are. Be you.
-
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
-
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
-
There's room for destiny! For miracles! There always is, and they always happen!
-
Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.
