There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

When people are not given an option by some secret scoring system, it's very hard to complain, so they often don't even know that they've been victimized.

I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

The public trusts big data way too much.

Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers.

I may not have all to be happy but I have to be happy with all that I have

Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs?

You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

It's important to focus on the solution, not the problem.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.