Luis von Ahn Quotes
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
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Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.
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I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.
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The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
