"Because of my experience in Occupy, instead of asking the question, "Who will benefit from this system I'm implementing with the data?" I started to ask the question, "What will happen to the most vulnerable?" Or "Who is going to lose under this system? How will this affect the worst-off person?" Which is a very different question from "How does this improve certain people's lives?""

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Cathy O'Neil

#Data Quotes #People Quotes #Doe Quotes

“World peace begins with inner peace.”
“I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.”
“Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.”
“The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.”

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“To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.”
“We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.”
“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”
“I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.”

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