Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes
Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.
Erik Brynjolfsson
Quotes to Explore
The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
Foster Friess
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Oren Peli
I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
Tammy Baldwin
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
Bear Grylls
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Joanne Rowling
I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.
Joel Madden
Good Charlotte
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
Lil' Romeo
I love doing impersonations of people.
Benedict Cumberbatch
In my mind, I was still Chimere's father. I was there when he was born. I saw him when he first came out. I held him. He was my kid.
Ne-Yo
When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.
Lydia Millet
On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
Adrian Tomine
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise Pascal
Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.
David Droga
There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in.
Steven Saylor
Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
Amy Chua
Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.
Erik Brynjolfsson
