"Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996."

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Source : "Erik Brynjolfsson: In A Race With Machines, Can We Keep Up?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, kvpr.org. April 21, 2017.

Erik Brynjolfsson

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“There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.”
“Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.”
“Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.”

Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.19, Random House
“Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.”
“Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.”
“Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.”

Source : Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.206, Penguin
“In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.”
“Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.”

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