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Top 25 Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes (2025 Update)

Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “The heart of science is measurement.”

1. “The heart of science is measurement.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.”

2. “Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”

4. “Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child’s PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.”

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

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.”

6. “Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can’t figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.”

7. “Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can’t figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.”

8. “Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Technology is always creating jobs. It’s always destroying jobs.”

9. “Technology is always creating jobs. It’s always destroying jobs.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Computers get better faster than anything else ever.”

11. “Computers get better faster than anything else ever.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don’t have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.”

12. “Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don’t have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “As a system capitalism is not perfect, but it’s far better than the alternatives. Winston Churchill said that, “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.”2 We believe the same about capitalism.”

13. “As a system capitalism is not perfect, but it’s far better than the alternatives. Winston Churchill said that, “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.”2 We believe the same about capitalism.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.”

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

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard.”

16. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “When technology advances too quickly for education to keep up, inequality generally rises.”

17. “When technology advances too quickly for education to keep up, inequality generally rises.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. – Havelock Ellis, 1922.”

18. “The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. – Havelock Ellis, 1922.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “There has never been a worse time to be competing with machines, but there has never been a better time to be a talented entrepreneur.”

19. “There has never been a worse time to be competing with machines, but there has never been a better time to be a talented entrepreneur.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.” – Mahatma Gandhi.”

20. “A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.” – Mahatma Gandhi.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “This reflects the career advice that Google chief economist Hal Varian frequently gives: seek to be an indispensable complement to something that’s getting cheap and plentiful.”

21. “This reflects the career advice that Google chief economist Hal Varian frequently gives: seek to be an indispensable complement to something that’s getting cheap and plentiful.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Albert Einstein once said that black holes are where God divided by zero, and that created some strange physics. While the marginal costs of digital goods do not quite approach zero, they are close enough to create some pretty strange economics.”

22. “Albert Einstein once said that black holes are where God divided by zero, and that created some strange physics. While the marginal costs of digital goods do not quite approach zero, they are close enough to create some pretty strange economics.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “As David Leonhardt notes, when Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet.”

23. “As David Leonhardt notes, when Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “Work saves a man from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” – Voltaire.”

24. “Work saves a man from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” – Voltaire.”

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Erik Brynjolfsson Quote: “There is no better resource for improving the world and bettering the state of humanity than the world’s humans – all 7.1 billion of us.”

25. “There is no better resource for improving the world and bettering the state of humanity than the world’s humans – all 7.1 billion of us.”

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