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“People whose networks bridge the structural holes between groups have an advantage in detecting and developing rewarding opportunities. They are able to see early, see more broadly, and translate information across groups.”
— Ronald Burt

“It wasn't the technology per se, it was a misplaced faith in it.”
— Richard de Neufville

“I asked, "If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?" Gordon answered without hesitation, "He would get us out of memories."”
— Andrew Grove

“Your weak ties connect you to networks that are outside of your own circle. They give you information and ideas that you otherwise would not have gotten.”
— Mark Granovetter

“The proliferation and ubiquity of ultraprocessed foods on grocery store shelves is changing what we are eating when we make meals at home.”
— Julia Wolfson

“At the same time that persons suffering from chronic diseases are getting an extension of life, they are also getting an extension of disease and disability.”
— Ernest Gruenberg

“The current legal framework governing public social care insurance results in a disadvantage to parents that have more than one child.”
— Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

“Our empirical analysis identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility.”
— Francesco Billari and Vincenzo Galasso

“Voters in pain are not necessarily irrational, but they are ignorant about both science and politics, and that makes them gullible when ambitious demagogues seek to profit from their misery.”
— Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels

“Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.”
— Elizabeth Loftus

“That we have found the tendency to conformity in our society so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern.”
— Solomon Asch

“I share your view that a swift convening of experts in a confidence inspiring framework (WHO seems really the only option) is needed, or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.”
— Francis Collins

“The engine underneath it all is still there. The heart is still beating. The feeds are still feeding.”
— Dave Winer

“While structured interviews fared well in prior work, they do emerge in the present work as the strongest predictor of job performance.”
— Paul Sackett, Charlene Zhang, Christopher Berry and Filip Lievens

“The very decision-making and resource-allocation processes that are key to the success of established companies are the very processes that reject disruptive technologies.”
— Clayton Christensen

“No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers.”
— Steve Blank

“Generally, brainstorming groups are significantly less productive than nominal groups, in terms of both quantity and quality.”
— Brian Mullen, Craig Johnson and Eduardo Salas

“Because behavior is public and thoughts are private.”
— Jonah Berger

“People share things that make them look good to others.”
— Jonah Berger

“Cost per acquisition: $233 to $388. For a $99 product. Fail.”
— Drew Houston

“The span of absolute judgment and the span of immediate memory impose severe limitations on the amount of information that we are able to receive, process, and remember.”
— George Miller

“83 percent of consumers worldwide consider recommendations from friends and acquaintances to be the most credible form of advertising.”
— Nielsen

“We have adapted our personalization algorithms to this new scenario in such a way that now 75% of what people watch is from some sort of recommendation.”
— Xavier Amatriain and Justin Basilico

“A big problem was project bloat, causing projects to go over time, over budget, and creating features and functions not required.”
— Jim Johnson

“Physical activity should be a mainstay approach in the management of depression, anxiety and psychological distress.”
— Ben Singh

“After 17-19 hours without sleep, corresponding to 2230 and 0100, performance on some tests was equivalent or worse than that at a BAC of 0.05%.”
— Ann Williamson and Anne-Marie Feyer

“Forty-four percent of employees worldwide say they are stressed, maintaining a record high set in 2021, according to Gallup's latest research.”
— Gallup

“Automation complacency is found in both naive and expert participants and cannot be overcome with simple practice.”
— Raja Parasuraman and Dietrich Manzey

“While less than 5 percent of all occupations can be automated entirely using demonstrated technologies, about 60 percent of all occupations have at least 30 percent of constituent activities that could be automated.”
— McKinsey Global Institute

“It can never be ethically acceptable that people are killed or seriously injured when moving within the road transport system.”
— Claes Tingvall

“While we find no significant effect of industrial robots on overall employment, there is some evidence that they crowd out employment of low-skilled and, to a lesser extent, middle-skilled workers.”
— Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels

“These maps allow rapid calculation of a Web page's PageRank, an objective measure of its citation importance that corresponds well with people's subjective idea of importance.”
— Sergey Brin and Larry Page

“In 2007, Joe and I were roommates in San Francisco, and we were trying to figure out how to pay our rent. That weekend, a design conference was coming to San Francisco and hotels were sold out, so we inflated three airbeds and turned our apartment into an Airbed & Breakfast.”
— Brian Chesky

“In retrospect it is clear that without all-up testing the first manned lunar landing could not have taken place as early as 1969.”
— Wernher von Braun

“It will appear that a measurable uncertainty, or risk proper, as we shall use the term, is so far different from an unmeasurable one that it is not in effect an uncertainty at all.”
— Frank Knight

“In our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection.”
— Jeff Bezos

“Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn't delete enough.”
— Elon Musk

“Online dating services obviously shouldn't be using romance scammers as a way to fatten their bottom line.”
— Andrew Smith

“It provides a universal, open standard for connecting AI systems with data sources, replacing fragmented integrations with a single protocol.”
— Anthropic

“A club is a voluntary group deriving mutual benefits from sharing the costs of producing an activity that has public-good characteristics.”
— William Nordhaus

“By hook or by crook, Apple's going to maintain its home screen advantage.”
— Alex Russell

“For demographic reasons, the population of working age in the European Union will decrease by 1 million per year. That means that legal migration should grow by more or less 1 million per year.”
— Ylva Johansson

“We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models.”
— Prafulla Dhariwal and Alex Nichol

“He put them all into the window simply because it has been done that way for years, because everyone does it, and because that is the way it has to be.”
— Vaclav Havel

“We finally realize the promise of conditional computation, achieving greater than 1000x improvements in model capacity with only minor losses in computational efficiency.”
— Noam Shazeer

“I am now absolutely certain that Lilienthal's table is very seriously in error.”
— Wilbur Wright

“Only an app that has been selected as a user's default app for making calls or text messages will be able to access call logs and SMS, respectively.”
— Paul Bankhead

“Feedback is the control of a system by reinserting into the system the results of its performance.”
— Norbert Wiener

“Nature takes payment by requiring just that much uncertainty, so that we are not actually getting any more than C through correctly.”
— Claude Shannon

“And hence also obeying a rule is a practice. And to think one is obeying a rule is not to obey a rule.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“How can the semantic interpretation of a formal symbol system be made intrinsic to the system, rather than just parasitic on the meanings in our heads?”
— Stevan Harnad

“You can type anything into Google, and there's your answer. So lessons are useless, you'll find the best lectures in the world on the internet, if you want to learn.”
— Xavier Niel

“Repeated studying after learning had no effect on delayed recall, but repeated testing produced a large positive effect.”
— Jeffrey Karpicke and Henry Roediger

“Any proposal leading to introduction of mandatory and permanent quota for solidarity measures would be unacceptable.”
— Visegrad Group

“The generative model can be thought of as analogous to a team of counterfeiters, trying to produce fake currency and use it without detection, while the discriminative model is analogous to the police, trying to detect the counterfeit currency.”
— Ian Goodfellow

“It's all nonsense, there are no Russian units, special forces or instructors in the east of Ukraine.”
— Vladimir Putin

“Every explosion of social forces, instead of being dissipated in a surrounding circuit of unknown space and barbaric chaos, will be sharply re-echoed from the far side of the globe...”
— Halford Mackinder

“They work in favor of freedom of expression by making it easier for us to express ourselves, but at the same time they also tend to work in favor of surveillance by making more of our private information public.”
— Evgeny Morozov

“Remember that your flying machine must imitate no other than the bat, because the web is what by its union gives the armour, or strength to the wings.”
— Leonardo da Vinci