Hal Varian Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.”
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“I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?”
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“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.”
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“We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.”
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“How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.”
-- Hal Varian
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