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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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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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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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.
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For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.
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They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.
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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.
