Esther Duflo famous quotes

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?
-- Esther Duflo

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And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do--if there's enough of it--is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
-- Esther Duflo

#Data #World #Lines

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.

It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, 'Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.