Steven Pinker Quotes

10 quotes from 9 authors

I gathered a handful of Pinker’s sharper lines and a few gems from his peers. His AI quip—'the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard'—highlights a paradox that fuels debate. The note on e‑books versus paper reminds us why reading matters. For optimism and tech, try Human Nature, Technology and Society.

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“Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Viking, Nueva York, 2011; posiciones 3279-3282 (Kindle).”

Anonymous

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“Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven…

Timothy Ferriss

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“Steven Pinker puts it, “The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the…

Erik Brynjolfsson

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I have an agent, John Brockman, who is an agent to many academic authors like Dan Gilbert and Steven Pinker, and he's…

Richard Thaler

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“Indeed, even Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and the other champions of the new scientific world view refuse to abandon liberalism. After dedicating…

Yuval Noah Harari

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Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,…

Martin Amis

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I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look…

Martin Amis

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“As the psychologist Steven Pinker puts it, “Exposure to worlds that can be seen only through the eyes of a foreigner, an…

Paul Bloom

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“Just as television didn't put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don't think e-books will…

Leah Price

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“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and…

Gudjon Bergmann

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