Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes

Fate is for losers.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

Technology is not destiny.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

Does our hand show in this?

We make our own history. The course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people. It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voices of the people themselves.