Esther Duflo quotes
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“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?”
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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 DufloSource : "The Poverty Lab". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. May 17, 2010.
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“I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.”
Source : "The Accidental Success of Adam Driver". Interview with Alex Morris, www.rollingstone.com. January 20, 2014.
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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