Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes

I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.

Cathy O'Neil

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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Know
  • Economics

• I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

  

  Otis Rush
  • People
  • Know
  • Play

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• People love gentle larceny.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Love
  • Gentle

• Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Great
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• People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Thought

• What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • People
  • Because
  • Realize

• I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feel
  • Inspired

• Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs. And I really don't want to ruin the illusions people may create for themselves.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • May
  • Future

• I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Done
  • Learning

• Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Lazy

• Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Money
  • Kids

• I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

  

  David Tang
  • People
  • Mind
  • Truth

• I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • People

• For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• I've always worked with people who have been supporters of me creatively.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • People

• Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Stage

• As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Teenager
  • Tennis

• In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • Literature

• Now we characterise Russian-Chinese relations as a strategic partnership, even a special strategic partnership. We have never had such a level of trust with China before. China is our major trade and economic partner among foreign states. We implement joint multi-billion projects. We cooperate not only within the UN Security Council, which is logical, as both China and Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, but also within such regional organisations as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, BRICS, etc.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Special
  • Economic
  • Cooperation

• I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • People
  • Beats
  • Neighborhood