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

There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because it's shiny new technology with a mathematical aura that it's perfect and it doesn't require further vetting. Of course, we never have that assumption with other kinds of technology.

Cathy O'Neil

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• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Complain

• All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Day
  • Acting
  • Said

• For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Done
  • Show
  • Gig

• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Business
  • City
  • Successful

• I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Friend

• I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • Past
  • Learning

• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Always

• Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Reason

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

  

  Jared Sparks
  • Great
  • Men
  • Experience

• If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Immigration

• If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

  

  Don Drysdale

• For the residents of Minneapolis, the loss of Prince is too large to describe. His music brought untold joy to people all over the world. But in Minneapolis, it is different. It is harder here.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• You were a precious pearl How I loved to see you shine, You were the perfect girl. And you were mine. For a time. For a time. Just for a time.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.

  

  Michelle Fairley
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Drama

• Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

  

  Martin Frost
  • Independent

• There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because it's shiny new technology with a mathematical aura that it's perfect and it doesn't require further vetting. Of course, we never have that assumption with other kinds of technology.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Technology