Cesar Hidalgo Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Cesar Hidalgo
The economy of early hominids and that of twenty-first century society have enormous differences, but they do share one important feature: in both of these economies, humans accumulate information in objects. Our world is different from that of early hominids only in the way in which atoms are arranged. — Cesar Hidalgo
In the U.S. there are two types of hipsters: those who know how to program and those who serve coffee. — Cesar Hidalgo
Schooling is certainly not a great proxy for knowhow and knowledge, since it is by definition a measure of the time spent in an establishment, not of the knowledge embodied in a person's brain. — Cesar Hidalgo
entropy is always lurking on the borders of information-rich anomalies, — Cesar Hidalgo
Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people — Cesar Hidalgo
In a physical system, information is the opposite of entropy, as it involves uncommon and highly correlated configurations that are difficult to arrive at. — Cesar Hidalgo
A society built entirely out of rational individuals who come together on the basis of a social contract for the sake of the satisfaction of their wants cannot form a society that would be viable over any length of time. - FRANCIS FUKUYAMA — Cesar Hidalgo
As the parts that made the Bugatti were pulled apart and twisted, the information that was embodied in the Bugatti was largely destroyed. This is another way of saying that the $2.5 million worth of value was stored not in the car's atoms but in the way those atoms were arranged. — Cesar Hidalgo
This figuring-out step is crucial, since overly optimistic economic models have often assumed that demand and incentives are enough to stimulate the production of any product. Incentives work to motivate intermediaries and traders, but makers, who are the ones that provide the substance of what is traded, need more than an incentive to make something. They need to know how to do it. — Cesar Hidalgo
The allocation of the best jobs, just like that of the best apartments, tends to piggyback social networks. — Cesar Hidalgo