"We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge ***** explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data."

-- Cathy O'Neil

#Data Quotes #Might Quotes #World Quotes

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”
“The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.”
“She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?”
“I'm my age and I feel glorious.”
“I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.”

Source : "La sociologie est un sport de combat". Documentary, May 2, 2001.
“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
“I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4”

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