Hal Varian famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.
-- Hal Varian

#People #Google #India
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?
-- Hal Varian

#Sexy #Jobs #Thinking
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.
-- Hal Varian

#Sexy #Jobs #Years
We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.
-- Hal Varian

#Data #Problem #Obesity
How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this â€˜job displacementâ€™ has been very welcome, as will the â€˜job displacementâ€™ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.
-- Hal Varian

#Jobs #Hands #Years
It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.
-- Hal Varian

#Book #Technology #Uc Berkeley
If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
-- Hal Varian

#Thinking #Train Stations #Happens
Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.
-- Hal Varian

#Innovation #Important #World

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Google might be doping the horses.
Porting a Google App Engine app written in Python to Go: Although I'm new to Go I get much quicker results than I've got with Python. Never used a language before that empowers you to solve problems as quick as Go does
We had to google the lyrics to our own song
2010 Foursquare Mayor Of The Year
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

Hal Varian famous quotes

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