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

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

Cathy O'Neil

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• North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • North Korea

• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Light
  • Wise

• I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Happy
  • Marriage
  • Person

• Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Blessings

• Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Process
  • Filmmaking
  • Editing

• One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Doing

• Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • You
  • Imagination

• The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Done
  • Energy
  • Proud

• My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • World
  • Family
  • She

• When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

  

  Carl Levin
  • War
  • Decision
  • Intelligence

• When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

  

  Adrian Mitchell
  • High
  • Hope
  • Sad

• There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Done

• When I first thought about leaving the traditional route of a 9-to-5 career to pursue full-time YouTube, it was terrifying - not many people were doing it. The thought was I have to have money saved up, because this very likely might fail. From the start, I had to give it my all for it to work.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

  

  Pele
  • Life
  • World
  • Goals

• I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Environment

• I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

  

  James D'arcy
  • Why
  • History
  • Strong

• For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Curiosity

• I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Education
  • Study

• We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Long
  • Lost
  • Attention

• You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

  

  Kevin Rollins
  • Money

• The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield "lordship" over another.

  

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick
  • Men
  • Women
  • Reason

• Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Trouble
  • Karma

• We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Math
  • Assuming