"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."

-- Cathy O'Neil

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“The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.”

Source : Susanna Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie (1968). “The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848”
“People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”
“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
“I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.”
“We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again”
“I will make mistakes, after all I am not perfect, but I will do my best to make them up to you. I would never hurt you intentionally. I would not give up on you, so I hope you don't give up on me. Sincerely, The Person that Loves You”
“There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.114, Wesleyan University Press

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