Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes

Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.

We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

The heart of science is measurement.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.