Andrew McAfee quotes

“The world is one big data problem.”
-- Andrew McAfee

Source : George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee (2014). “Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation”, p.5, Harvard Business Press

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“Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.”
-- Andrew McAfee

Source : "Are Droids Taking Our Jobs?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 26, 2013.

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“The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.”
-- Andrew McAfee

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com

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“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”

“You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

“What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.”

“It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”

“There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”