Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
-
I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
-
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?
-
San Francisco, coolest place ever.
-
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
-
Defending peace is the duty of all.
-
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
-
My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
-
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.
-
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
-
They hate whom they fear.
-
I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
-
People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
-
Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.
-
When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
-
I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
-
I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.
-
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
-
I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.
-
You have enough people against you... be for yourself.
-
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
-
While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.
-
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.
