"It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning."

-- Lincoln Steffens

“By construction, the world of big data is siloed and segmented and segregated so that successful people, like myself - technologists, well-educated white people, for the most part - benefit from big data, and it's the people on the other side of the economic spectrum, especially people of color, who suffer from it. They suffer from it individually, at different times, at different moments. They never get a clear explanation of what actually happened to them because all these scores are secret and sometimes they don't even know they're being scored.”

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“I always want to be an actress.”
“I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”
“I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place.”
“The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.”
“If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.”
“From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.”
“In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,”

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