"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."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Cathy O'Neil

#People Quotes #Secret Quotes #Complaining Quotes

“As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.”

Source : "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.
“The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.”
“With poverty everything becomes frightful.”
“The probable is what usually happens.”
“I remember making up songs in my head.”
“Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.”

Source : Song: Knowing when to Leave
“Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.”

Source : Graham Joyce (2011). “The Silent Land: A novel”, p.169, Anchor
“I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'”

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