Alex Pentland Quotes

We can now watch human organizations evolve on a microsecond-by-microsecond basis and examine all of the interactions among millions of people.

Alex Pentland

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• I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Best
  • Care

• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • You
  • Being
  • Anxiety

• I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing line which is extremely exciting.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Work
  • Season
  • Pilots

• Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • Life
  • History
  • Acceptance

• I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Free

• If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Funny
  • Wife
  • Husband

• Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Time
  • Hate

• I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Light
  • Chance
  • Kitchen

• My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Spot
  • Curveball
  • Cutter

• Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Athirst

• ...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid of something that we don't know. ... It's unfortunate that things take a while to progress like this, but it was a great, great victory for equality. I'm proud New York has the balls to stand up for what's right.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Believe
  • Half-heartedly

• The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Way
  • Genius
  • Stealing

• It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion
  • Examine

• I don’t know from one album or one song to the next what I want to say, it’s what I feel at the time is necessary to say. I just want to be who I am in the moment and continue to evolve and be fluid.

  

  PJ Morton Maroon 5
  • Want
  • Song
  • Say

• Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

  

  Reed Hundt
  • Interest
  • Courses
  • Standards

• We can now watch human organizations evolve on a microsecond-by-microsecond basis and examine all of the interactions among millions of people.

  

  Alex Pentland
  • Evolve
  • Organizations
  • Examine