"The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer?"

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Source : "Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation". Book by Tyler Cowen, 2013.

Tyler Cowen

#Intelligent Quotes #Skills Quotes #Keys Quotes

“It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.”
“A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.”
“I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it?”
“ItÂ´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation.”
“My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.”
“The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'”
“Every time I see a child walking down the street I like to trip them. While they look for their missing teeth, I personally remind them that no matter how hard they try I will always be better than them.”
“As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'”

Source : "The New Frontier's Man" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2007.

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