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    “Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.”
    ― Erik Brynjolfsson Andrew McΑfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
    tags: technology
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    “Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power—the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments—what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”
    ― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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    “The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard. . . . As the new generation of intelligent devices appears, it will be the stock analysts and petrochemical engineers and parole board members who are in danger of being replaced by machines. The gardeners, receptionists, and cooks are secure in their jobs for decades to come.”
    ― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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    “When technology advances too quickly for education to keep up, inequality generally rises.”
    ― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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    “The Gross National Product does not include the beauty of our poetry or the intelligence of our public debate. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” —Robert F. Kennedy”
    ― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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    “[T]he key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.”
    ― Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
    tags: computers
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    “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” —Elbert Hubbard”
    ― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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    “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” —Albert A. Bartlett”
    ― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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    Randy Pausch
    “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance
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    Randy Pausch
    “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: advice, last-lecture, life, randy-pausch
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    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: adversity, hard-times, inspiration
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    Randy Pausch
    “Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. ”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Randy Pausch
    “When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.”
    ― Randy Pausch
    tags: inspirational
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    Randy Pausch
    “You can always change you plan, but only if you have one.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Randy Pausch
    “There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: children, teaching
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    Amy Chua
    “Nothing is fun until you're good at it.”
    ― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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    Amy Chua
    “As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”
    ― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
    tags: humorous
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    Amy Chua
    “Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.”
    ― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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    Amy Chua
    “What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.”
    ― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: denial, honesty, truth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: a-game-of-thrones, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, curiosity, george-r-r-martin, tyrion-lannister, wall
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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: censorship
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    George R.R. Martin
    “My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: abilities, song-of-fire-and-ice, tyrion-lannister
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  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    George R.R. Martin
    “You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: honor, pride
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