Ahn Do Quotes & Sayings

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book. — Luis Von Ahn

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 project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge. — Luis Von Ahn

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit. — Luis Von Ahn

Trull watched Cotillion walk through the archway, and the Tiste Edur's gaze fell once more on the body of Ahlrada Ahn. As Shadowthrone approached Quick Ben, Trull climbed to his feet and made his way to where his friend was lying. Ahlrada Ahn. I do not understand you - I have never understood you - but I thank you nonetheless. I thank you ...
He stepped to the entranceway, looked out, and saw Cotillion, the Patron of Assassins, the god, sitting on a shelf of stone that had slipped down from one wall, sitting, alone, with his head in his hands. — Steven Erikson

The current business model for language education is the student pays - in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world's population doesn't have $500. — Luis Von Ahn

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted. — Luis Von Ahn

Jerome Daley reminds us of the beauty, presence, and purpose of God in the waiting period, and that God is just as amazing then as He is at any other time. Readers will grow to trust God even more, and will be greatly rewarded as they are encouraged to faint not. — Che Ahn

To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists. — Justin Chon

In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can. — Priscilla Ahn

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.' — Priscilla Ahn

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal. — Priscilla Ahn

I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games. — Luis Von Ahn

But if we abide in Him and He abides in us, we will bear much fruit in oneness with other believers. He will give us the glory to come into unity. And when we receive love from God, we will be able to love others as He loves us. This twofold unity - with the triune God and with each other - is the key to evangelism. Indeed, our intimacy with God has everything to do with His great harvest. Jesus said, "May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me" (John 17:23, emphasis mine). It is through our oneness with God and His people that His glory is revealed through us, leading the world to believe in Him. — Che Ahn

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art. — Luis Von Ahn

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 wanted to do with that computer was play games. — Luis Von Ahn

I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me. — Priscilla Ahn

My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind. — Luis Von Ahn

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 play nice. — Luis Von Ahn

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 college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome. — Luis Von Ahn

[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time. — Luis Von Ahn

And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally. — Priscilla Ahn

When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure. — Luis Von Ahn

I no longer merely confess that I am the righteousness of Christ. I realize that with His DNA in me through His blood, I could be nothing else. I realize the attributes of His DNA reside in me - whether dormant or active. — Che Ahn

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 to solve it for us while they are playing a game. — Luis Von Ahn

If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory. — Che Ahn

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! — Luis Von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer. — Luis Von Ahn

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's ... might be a good idea. — Luis Von Ahn

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love. — Priscilla Ahn

I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up. — Priscilla Ahn

With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album you can totally hear they're trying to write a song for 'Grey's Anatomy' and it doesn't work. It's just one of those things that has to feel genuine to last a long time. — Priscilla Ahn

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 million? — Luis Von Ahn

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that? — Luis Von Ahn

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 it 100 percent with watching TV. — Luis Von Ahn