Humans Are Underrated Quotes

“Follow your passion, study it assiduously, and as you pursue it, strive in addition to become more intensely human. Doing so will improve your material well-being as the economy evolves, and it will bring you a richer, fuller life.”
― Geoff Colvin, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

“Now, increasingly, you have to be good at”
― Geoff Colvin, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

“Children whose "parents are very attentive to their elementary needs are likely to develop trust and security, which may promote prosocial orientation," note psychology researchers, but those parents probably weren't consciously trying to create cooperative adults; they were just being good, attentive parents.”
― Geoff Colvin, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

“We just can’t get our heads around the power of doubling every two years. At that rate, computing power increases by a factor of a million in forty years. The computing visionary Bill Joy likes to point out that jet travel is faster than walking by a factor of one hundred, and it changed the world. Nothing in our experience prepares us to grasp a factor of a million.”
― Geoff Colvin, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

“As the two large technology trends of our era combine, as technology takes over more of our work while simultaneously changing us and the way we relate to one another, the people who master the human abilities that are fading all around us will be the most valuable people in our world.”
― Geoff Colvin, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

“As the shift in valuable skills continues, organizations are finding not only that they have no jobs for the disengaged and socially inept, but that such people are toxic to the enterprise and must be removed.”
― Geoff Colvin, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

“Google’s autonomous cars are an obvious and significant example—significant because the number one job among American men is truck driver.”
― Geoff Colvin, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will