Top 19 Moshe Vardi Quotes

We will hear more regrets from founders of tech companies about the addictive technologies they have launched.

Automation will significantly change many people‘s lives in ways that may be painful and enduring.

The question I want to put forward is, ‘Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?’

It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation – I have done it myself.

The impact of technology on labor has become clearer and clearer by the day.

In economics, it is easier to agree on the data than to agree on causality.

People at the very top of the income scale also benefited from globalization and automation. But the income of working- and middle-class people in the developed world has stagnated.

If I had my wish, I would wave a wand and make MOOCs disappear.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.’

Are machines getting more and more powerful? Absolutely. It’s been going on since 1940. We are making progress, and for many people, it will be a lifesaver.

The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren’t working?

What people are now realizing is that this formula that technology destroys jobs and creates jobs, even if it’s basically true, it’s too simplistic.

In 2017, there was a sudden recognition of several adverse societal consequences of information technology, from job losses due to automation to manipulation of public opinion, with significant political consequences.

You can now eat bananas from Chile; you couldn’t do it before you had air shipping. Now, communication technology enables the shipping of labor.

Recognition by one’s peers is the goal of every scientist.

I believe that work is essential to human well-being.

Offshoring is like the winter. You don’t ask if it is good or bad – you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.