Category - Luis von Ahn

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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

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

Luis von Ahn

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

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Luis von Ahn

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

– Luis von Ahn

Luis von 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

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

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

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

Luis von Ahn

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

– Luis von Ahn

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

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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 intuitive process. It’s an art.

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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

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