Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes

It's most useful to think about not jobs but tasks. And within any given job, there are lots of different tasks. If you're a radiologist maybe reading the images machines can be able to do that better, maybe making the broader diagnosis and communicating it to the patients.

Erik Brynjolfsson

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Die
  • Person
  • Should

• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Kingdom

• I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Movies
  • Two
  • Shades

• I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Maybe
  • Doctorate

• Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Up
  • Red

• It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

  

  Jana Kramer
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Acceptance

• For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap into my innermost emotions and try to bring that reality on to the screen.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Woman
  • Bible
  • Ducks

• 'Alarm' was about a boy that cheated on me, and when I found out, I wondered if I should give him another chance. I used to give a lot of chances to people hoping they would become better people, but this one didn't.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Boy

• Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

  

  Anne Michaels

• I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

  

  Joan Collins

• Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.

  

  Kiara Saulters
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• I feel very lucky 'Arrested Development' was so successful because I never really got too much attention, and I was able to evolve instead of only being seen as one character.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Character
  • Attention

• Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Trying
  • Approval

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Up
  • Done

• ..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Different
  • Long
  • History

• It's most useful to think about not jobs but tasks. And within any given job, there are lots of different tasks. If you're a radiologist maybe reading the images machines can be able to do that better, maybe making the broader diagnosis and communicating it to the patients.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
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  • Reading
  • Communicate