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14 quotes by Luis von Ahn

Luis von Ahn (born 1979) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.
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Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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.... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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