Hilary Mason Quotes

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Hilary Mason

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 4, 1917

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

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To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.

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Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities.

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I joined bit.ly as chief scientist in October of 2009. The company is a URL-shortener and content-sharing platform; we provide tools for people to share and track links on the Internet.

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Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

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It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

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I decided that since I was trying to teach 'style' of thinking in science and engineering, and 'style' is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts - once the fundamentals have been learned.

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When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people read is cats and Bieber and celebrity gossip and that stuff.

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I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes.

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I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better.

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It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

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You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.

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I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

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Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address.

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Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I am doing or where I am, unless you're particularly interested in me, which is weird. But it is very useful to know what a population of people are doing.

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Don't take advice you see on the Internet too seriously!

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Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on.

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Don't be afraid to push your company in the direction you think is right - you'll either be fired or promoted, and either outcome will end up just fine.

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If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.

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I don't actually, as a general policy, block any sort of cookies. I keep them all turned on, and that's because I'm willing to make the tradeoff that I let companies gather this information about me in return for a better experience.

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