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

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

Cathy O'Neil

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Hope
  • Education

• Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • World
  • Kind
  • Play

• I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Look

• I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • School
  • Never
  • Acting

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Men
  • Together

• After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Up

• Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Life
  • College
  • Decision

• Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like going camping with my kids. I have two daughters; they're 7 and 10 years old.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • Kids
  • Camping

• We did not pay for favors.

  

  Jay Y. Lee

• My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

  

  Gayle King
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • World
  • Creepy

• I have to watch out for being lazy.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Lazy

• I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

  

  Marc Warren
  • Freedom
  • Planning

• There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • World
  • Women
  • Amazing

• We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Love
  • Eating
  • Creatures

• Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reality
  • Knowledge
  • Intelligent

• Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Important
  • Country
  • Why

• The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Training
  • Computer
  • Ethics