Luis von Ahn Quotes

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• Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.
• The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100…
• Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a…
• The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business…
• People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!
• My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.
• I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill…
• I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.
• Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
• My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I…
• The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people…
• Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during…
• Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to…
• I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

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